Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary
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Source: The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author
“The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.”
Source: The Letters of David Hume:
Source: The Letters of David Hume:
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Source: The Natural History of Religion
Source: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
Source: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)
“To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book
“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”
Source: The Natural History of Religion
“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
Source: Essays, moral, political, and literary.- v. 2. An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion
“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.”
Source: The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author
“Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.”
Source: The history of England: From the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution of 1688 : To which is prefixed a short account of his life, written by himself
“Men often act knowingly against their interest.”
Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition
“The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.”
“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.”
Source: The Philosophical Works
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”
Source: Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume
“The law always limits every power it gives.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition
“Custom is the great guide to human life.”
Source: David Hume: an introduction to his philosophical system
“Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.”
Source: A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition
“Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Source: Moral Philosophy
Source: The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author
“Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.”
Source: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An. inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion
“Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections
“No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
Source: And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion