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World Quotes by David Hume

21 World quotes by David Hume

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David Hume treats the world like a grand experiment, constantly questioning what we can truly know. In 21 concise statements he blends skepticism with curiosity, probing the limits of perception and the role of habit in shaping our reality. If you enjoy a steady, rational tone that never pretends to have all the answers, his reflections will feel like a thoughtful companion.

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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

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In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

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Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything…

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of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

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Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than…

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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to…

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In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent…

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When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me;…

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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…

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When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar…

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Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the…

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It were better, never to look beyond the present material world. By supposing it to contain the principle of its order within…

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In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs…

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Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good…

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Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a…

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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is…

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Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free…

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It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its…

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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let…

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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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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted…

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“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.”

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