In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among… — David Hume Copy Share Image
On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
