David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
Born: May 7, 1711, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Died: August 25, 1776, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
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.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
The law always limits every power it gives.
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.
Custom is the great guide to human life.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
The law always limits every power it gives.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
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.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
