Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old David Hume quotes, David Hume sayings, and David Hume proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
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. David Hume
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.David Hume
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If suicide be supposed a crime, 'tis only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence, when it becomes a burden.David Hume
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.David Hume
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Custom is the great guide to human life.David Hume
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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.David Hume
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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.David Hume
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Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few.David Hume
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Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.David Hume
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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.David Hume
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.David Hume
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.David Hume
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A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence.David Hume
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.David Hume
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.David Hume
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. David Hume
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The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.David Hume
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And what is the greatest number? Number one.David Hume
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Absolute monarchy is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the British constitution.David Hume
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.David Hume
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The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying.David Hume
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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.David Hume
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.David Hume
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.David Hume
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Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.David Hume
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No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.David Hume
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No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.David Hume
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The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensationDavid Hume
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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.David Hume
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Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.David Hume