David Hume Quotes

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

Philosophy, Amid

Custom is the great guide to human life.
David Hume

Life, Great, Human

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume

Men, Melancholy, Thrown

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

Knowledge, Learning, True

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

Patriotism, Power, Road

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume

Nature, Human, Find

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume

Truth, Friends, Argument

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume

Brain, Thought, Call

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

Beauty, Vain, Reasoning

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

Truth, Greatest, Person

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

Beauty, Moral, Whether

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

Alone, Nothing, Able

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume

Everything, Labor, Purchased

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
David Hume

Nature, Science, Human

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
David Hume

Political, Knave, Maxim

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

Reason, Whole, Contrary

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
David Hume

Life, Reason, Guide

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume

Lost, Liberty, Once

Men often act knowingly against their interest.
David Hume

Men, Often, Against

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
David Hume

Pure, Advantages, Unmixed

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

Death, Powerful, Nothing

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
David Hume

Nature, Strong, Philosophy

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
David Hume

History, Three, Found

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
David Hume

Philosophy, Secret, Influence

The law always limits every power it gives.
David Hume

Power, Law, Limits

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 7, 1711

Died: August 25, 1776

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