When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“And while the body is confined to one planet, along which it creeps with pain and difficulty; the thought can in an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other,… — 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 be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with… — David Hume Copy Share
...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
