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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume

Beauty, Mind, Exists

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

Great, Good, Men

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

Happy, Excellent, Temper

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
David Hume

Real, Together, Healing

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

Love, Hate, Nothing

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

Tomorrow, Sun, Less

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume

Life, Universe, Greater

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
David Hume

Reason, Office, Serve

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

Religion, Person, Christian

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

Reason, Reflection, Room

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

Religion, Philosophy, Dangerous

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
David Hume

Except, Written, Indeed

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume

Wise, Belief, Evidence

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume

Hope, Fear, Real

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume

Nothing, Few, Governed

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

Christian, Believing, Sound

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

Design, Stupid, Purpose

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

Fact, Miracle, Unless

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

Society, Alone, Friends

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

Government, Wise, Easy

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

Best, Corruption, Worst

And what is the greatest number? Number one.
David Hume

Greatest, Number

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
David Hume

Character, Result, System

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

History, Respect, Knowledge

Avarice, the spur of industry.
David Hume

Industry, Avarice, Spur

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 7, 1711

Died: August 25, 1776

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