David Hume Quotes

World events pale by comparison. - David Hume Kennerly

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. - David Hume

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities. - David Hume

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

Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature than the sentiment of benevolence in an eminent degree; and that a part at least of its merit arises from its tendency to promote the interests of our. - David Hume

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. - David Hume

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

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

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

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. - David Hume

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