{"id":447,"date":"2017-03-22T15:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2018-05-01T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:06:18","slug":"david-hume-quotations-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/david-hume-quotations-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hume Quotations (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Hume quotes and aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/a>The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

…no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.<\/span>
\nDavid Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place… it’s when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

I have written on all sorts of subjects… yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

And what is the greatest number? Number one.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Avarice, the spur of industry.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Custom is the great guide to human life.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.<\/span>
\n David Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. \u2026\u2019Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.<\/span>
\nDavid Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

David Hume Quotations (Part 2)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by authors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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