Best David Hume Thoughts
- No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the… Endeavor
- Avarice, the spur of industry. Avarice
- The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. Conclusion
- What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. Agitation
- The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. Anti War
- The law always limits every power it gives. Always Limits
- Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. Able
- Custom is the great guide to human life. Custom
- Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. Agreeable
- Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. Entirely
- This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. Acquiring
- Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. Any
- Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. Beauty
- Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. Been
- It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. Contrary
- It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. Custom
- No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. Advantage
- The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens… Advantage
- A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making… Acquainted
- Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as… Abound
- There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find… Bestow
- There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and… All
- Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. Accuracy
- The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. Application
- If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… Abstract
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