A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
- David Hume Quote

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
- David Hume Quote

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 Quote

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
- David Hume Quote

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
- David Hume Quote

Beauty is no quality in things themselves, it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
- David Hume Quote

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
- David Hume Quote

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 Quote

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
- David Hume Quote

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
- David Hume Quote

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
- David Hume Quote

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
- David Hume Quote

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 Quote

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
- David Hume Quote

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
- David Hume Quote

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
- David Hume Quote

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
- David Hume Quote

That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
- David Hume Quote

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 Quote

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
- David Hume Quote

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
- David Hume Quote

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
- David Hume Quote

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
- David Hume Quote