Love Quotes by David Hume

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

— David Hume

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it…

— David Hume

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its…

— David Hume

“The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and…

— David Hume

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for…

— David Hume

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating…

— David Hume

When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the…

— David Hume

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other,…

— David Hume

Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without…

— David Hume

Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable…

— David Hume

There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular…

— David Hume

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with…

— David Hume

The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender…

— David Hume

But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into…

— David Hume

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few…

— David Hume

Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and…

— David Hume

“It is indeed a mortifying reflection to those who are actuated by the love of fame, so justly denominated the last infirmity…

— David Hume

And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper…

— David Hume

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the…

— David Hume

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other,…

— David Hume

Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade,…

— David Hume

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the…

— David Hume

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare…

— David Hume

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to…

— David Hume