David Hume

David Hume

"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."
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"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."
David Hume Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
"In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence."
David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
"“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”"
David Hume
"“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”"
David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature
"This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society."
David Hume
"Men often act knowingly against their interest."
David Hume
"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 in commodities and riches."
David Hume
"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."
David Hume
"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."
David Hume
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
David Hume
"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
David Hume
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
David Hume
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
David Hume
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
David Hume
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
David Hume
"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
David Hume
"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 learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."
David Hume
"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."
David Hume
"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."
David Hume
"Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
David Hume
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