Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — 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
If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to… — 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
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government,… — 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
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
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a… — 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
