Quotes by David Hume

About David Hume:

David Hume is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

David Hume

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

David Hume

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

David Hume

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

David Hume

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.

David Hume

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

David Hume

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

David Hume

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

David Hume

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.

David Hume

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

David Hume

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

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

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry.

David Hume

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

David Hume

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

David Hume

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.

David Hume

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.

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The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

David Hume

Author Bio

  • NameDavid Hume
  • DescriptionScottish philosopher, economist, and historian
  • AliasesDavid Home
  • BornApril 26, 1711
  • DiedAugust 25, 1776
  • CountryKingdom Of Great Britain
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Economist; Librarian; Historian; Essayist; Writer