Nature of man Quotes by David Hume

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

— David Hume

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

— David Hume

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

— David Hume

“study of human nature was in a sorry state. While he had reservations about the ancient philosophers for depending ‘more on Invention…

— David Hume

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of…

— David Hume

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt…

— David Hume

“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any…

— David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this…

— David Hume

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself,…

— David Hume

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and…

— David Hume

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which…

— David Hume

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize…

— David Hume

Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are…

— David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and…

— David Hume

There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with…

— 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

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

“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any…

— David Hume

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure…

— David Hume

“There is an universal tendency amongst mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities, with…

— David Hume