--- title: "18 Natural Quotes By David Hume" description: "18 Natural quotes by David Hume. Plus more from David Hume and more Natural sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64d/david-hume-538_fine_fine-writing-according-to-mr-addison-con_1145568.jpg" --- > [Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/fine-writing-according-to-mr-addison-consists-of-sentiments-which-are/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64d/david-hume-538_fine_fine-writing-according-to-mr-addison-con_1145568.jpg) > [Which is more likely: that the whole natural order is suspended, or that a jewish minx should tell a lie?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/which-is-more-likely-that-the-whole-natural-order-is-suspended-or/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b4/david-hume-538_lying_which-is-more-likely-that-the-whole-natu_994294.jpg) > [Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/beauty-whether-moral-or-natural-is-felt-more-properly-than-perceived/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/460/david-hume-538_beauty_beauty-whether-moral-or-natural-is-felt_1351111.jpg) > [Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/any-person-seasoned-with-a-just-sense-of-the-imperfections-of-natural/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c54/david-hume-538_natural_any-person-seasoned-with-a-just-sense-of_1334107.jpg) > [While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/while-newton-seemed-to-draw-off-the-veil-from-some-of-the-mysteries/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d50/david-hume-538_draws_while-newton-seemed-to-draw-off-the-veil_846537.jpg) > [Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/among-the-arts-of-conversation-no-one-pleases-more-than-mutual/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebb/david-hume-538_arrogance_among-the-arts-of-conversation-no-one-pl_2301155.jpg) > [The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/the-whole-of-natural-theologyresolves-itself-into-one-simple-though/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d4/david-hume-538_ambiguous_the-whole-of-natural-theologyresolves-it_3185395.jpg) > [In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/in-the-sphere-of-natural-investigation-as-in-poetry-and-painting-the/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac9/david-hume-538_appeals_in-the-sphere-of-natural-investigation-a_2520206.jpg) > [Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/municipal-laws-are-a-supply-to-the-wisdom-of-each-individual-and-at/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/david-hume-538_individual_municipal-laws-are-a-supply-to-the-wisdo_1132421.jpg) > [There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/there-is-an-universal-tendency-among-mankind-to-conceive-all-beings/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/david-hume-538_anthropomorphism_there-is-an-universal-tendency-among-man_2615653.jpg) > [The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/the-most-perfect-philosophy-of-the-natural-kind-only-staves-off-our/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ab/david-hume-538_blindness_the-most-perfect-philosophy-of-the-natur_1661086.jpg) > [From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/from-the-apparent-usefulness-of-the-social-virtues-it-has-readily/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/389/david-hume-538_ancient_from-the-apparent-usefulness-of-the-soci_3215944.jpg) > [Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/battles-revolutions-pestilence-famine-and-death-are-never-the-effect/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c71/david-hume-538_battle_battles-revolutions-pestilence-famine-an_2371338.jpg) > [The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/the-more-tremendous-the-divinity-is-represented-the-more-tame-and/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad3/david-hume-538_abandon_the-more-tremendous-the-divinity-is-repr_2347158.jpg) > [What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/what-peculiar-privilege-has-this-little-agitation-of-the-brain-which/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce8/david-hume-538_agitation_what-peculiar-privilege-has-this-little_1289697.jpg) > [All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/all-the-sciences-have-a-relation-greater-or-less-to-human-nature-and/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f8/david-hume-538_accounts_all-the-sciences-have-a-relation-greater_1071572.jpg) > [The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/the-best-taxes-are-such-as-are-levied-upon-consumptions-especially/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/david-hume-538_commodity_the-best-taxes-are-such-as-are-levied-up_2755990.jpg) > [Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/look-round-this-universe-what-an-immense-profusion-of-beings-animated/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7dd/david-hume-538_active_look-round-this-universe-what-an-immense_2077663.jpg) ## Other authors on Natural ## More by David Hume > [“Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/beauty-in-things-exists-in-the-mind-that-contemplates-them/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/it-is-impossible-for-us-to-think-of-any-thing-which-we-have-not/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/all-morality-depends-upon-our-sentiments-and-when-any-action-or/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/and-indeed-nothing-but-the-most-determined-scepticism-along-with-a/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/virtue-is-attended-by-more-peace-of-mind-than-vice-and-meets-with-a/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/that-the-sun-will-not-rise-tomorrow-is-no-less-intelligible-a/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/we-may-conclude-therefore-that-in-order-to-establish-laws-for-the/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/the-observation-of-human-blindness-and-weakness-is-the-result-of-all/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/the-religious-hypothesis-therefore-must-be-considered-only-as-a/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/manufacturers-gradually-shift-their-places-leaving-those-countries/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/we-may-observe-that-in-displaying-the-praises-of-any-humane/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/the-most-perfect-happiness-surely-must-arise-from-the-contemplation/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [“They all make up new species of crime and bring unhappiness in their train. When I hear a man is religious , I conclude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/they-all-make-up-new-species-of-crime-and-bring-unhappiness-in-their/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/there-is-not-to-be-found-in-all-history-any-miracle-attested-by-a/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) > [“But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/but-though-there-be-naturally-a-wide-difference-in-point-of-delicacy/) [David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": 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