The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Do you imagine that I repine at Providence, or curse my creation, because I go out of life, and put a period… — 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
But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I believe that no man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. For such is our natural horror of death,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“If my life be not my own, it were criminal for me to put it in danger, as well as to dispose… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs… — 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
