Quotes David Hume

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said ...

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and...

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even t...

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence....

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just...

And what is the greatest number? Number one....

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections o...

Avarice, the spur of industry....

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a ma...

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them....

Beauty is no quality in things themselves, it exists merely ...

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely ...

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly tha...

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, ...

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principal...

Custom is the great guide to human life....

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life....

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reas...

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the cond...

Everything in the world is purchased by labor....

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; th...

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is mo...

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is mo...

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the goo...

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hi...