Quotes about David Hume

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and...

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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself...

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Custom is the great guide to human life.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object,...

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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

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Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates...

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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but...

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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most...

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is...

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the...

#David Hume