David Hume Quotes

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• All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still…
• Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
• Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you…
• Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you…
• Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
• I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
• God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
• Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
• The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
• All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the…
• To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of…
• Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
• The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
• 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
• Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on…
• If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
• All knowledge degenerates into probability.
• All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to…
• It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend…
• We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that…

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