It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
DAVID HUMEIt is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
DAVID HUMEA wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
DAVID HUMEHow can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
DAVID HUMENo man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
DAVID HUMEAll sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
DAVID HUMEBe a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
DAVID HUMEThe bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
DAVID HUMEWe should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
DAVID HUMEIf subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
DAVID HUMEThe victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
DAVID HUMENothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
DAVID HUMEAs every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
DAVID HUMEWhat a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
DAVID HUMEBeauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
DAVID HUMEBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUMECarelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
DAVID HUME