In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species… — David Hume Copy Share Image
... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased… — David Hume Copy Share Image
... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free… — 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
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end. — David Hume Copy Share Image
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people,… — 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
