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All Quotes by author - David Hume

" 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. "

" 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. "

" And what is the greatest number? Number one. "

Greatest Number

" Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. "

" A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. "

" A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. "

" Avarice, the spur of industry. "

" A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. "

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

" Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. "

" Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. "

" 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. "

" Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. "

" Custom is the great guide to human life. "

" 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. "

" Everything in the world is purchased by labor. "

" 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. "

" Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. "

" 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. "

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

" Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. "

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

" 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. "

Working Together

" Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. "

" Men often act knowingly against their interest. "

" No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. "

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