Produce Quotes by David Hume

10 Produce quotes by David Hume

David Hume approaches produce through the lens of experience and reason, offering a handful of crisp observations. Though brief, these quotes capture his skeptical curiosity about how we value and understand what we make.

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Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

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That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances,…

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Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,…

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Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves…

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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…

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How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be…

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... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The…

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The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the…

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But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into…

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If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If…

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“Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.”

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“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.”

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All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it…

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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

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...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,…

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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will…

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We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation…

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

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The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

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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…

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