Quality Quotes by David Hume

12 Quality quotes by David Hume

David Hume’s analytical mind turns the notion of quality into a thoughtful examination of perception and value. Twelve brief reflections reveal his skeptical yet insightful stance on what constitutes true excellence.

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No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize…

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Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different…

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Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we…

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... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our…

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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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We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few…

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There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with…

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Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to…

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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…

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Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every…

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... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased…

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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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