“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal… — 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… — 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… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. — David Hume Copy Share Image
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would… — 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
“To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. — 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
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among… — 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
It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can… — 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
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume Copy Share Image
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper… — 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
