[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
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it… — 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
“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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