Which is more likely: that the whole natural order is suspended, or that a jewish minx should tell a lie? — David Hume Copy Share Image
[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. — David Hume Copy Share Image
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
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Hume is indeed sceptical about the possibility of metaphysical insights that go deeper than science can, he is not at all sceptical… — 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
“There is an universal tendency amongst mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities, with… — 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
“How little is requisite to supply the necessities of nature? And in a view to pleasure, what comparison between the unbought satisfaction… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. [All the other sciences] have a relation, greater or… — 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
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift… — 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
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