Source: Moral Philosophy
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Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature
Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Source: Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
“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.”
“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”
Source: 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
“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
“Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“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: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
“Everything in the world is purchased by labor.”
Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
“Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.”
“Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.”
Source: Moral and Political Philosophy