Quotes by David Hume

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...

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The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of...

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The law always limits every power it gives.

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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

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