David Hume Quotes

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• There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

  David Hume

  Choices, Freedom Of Choice, Refuse

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  A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

  David Hume

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  1748 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, section 10, pt.1.

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• When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

  David Hume

  Men, Stupidity, Arrogance

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• If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.

  David Hume

  Evil, Religion, Doe

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  All knowledge degenerates into probability.

  David Hume

  Knowledge, Science, Degenerates

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.144, 谷月社

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

  David Hume

  Positive, Beauty, Philosophical

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

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Government

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

  David Hume

  Hate, Philosophical, Thinking

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.57, 谷月社

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• The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

  David Hume

  Life, Science, Men

  David Hume, Richard H. Popkin (1998). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)”, p.100, Hackett Publishing

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  It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.

  David Hume

  Men, Order, Liberty

  David Hume, Stuart D. Warner, Donald W. Livingston (1994). “Hume: Political Writings”, p.253, Hackett Publishing

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• I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.

  David Hume

  Believe, Enough, There Is No God

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• Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

  David Hume

  Beauty, Mind, Quality

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757)

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• Anything that is conceivable is possible.

  David Hume

  Destiny

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• The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

  David Hume

  Past, Words Of Wisdom, Kind

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.110, 谷月社

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• No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

  David Hume

  Swans, White, Black

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• The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

  David Hume

  Perception, Mind, Philosopher

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.534

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• A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

  David Hume

  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

  David Hume, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1998). “Dialogues and Natural History of Religion”, p.41, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

  David Hume

  Passion, Morality, Action

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.235

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• The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

  David Hume

  Believe, Men, Unhappy

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• The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.

  David Hume

  Men, Differences, Words Of Wisdom

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  Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Passion, Eye

  David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

  David Hume

  Life, Gone, Life Is

  David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.122

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• The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Giving, Corruption

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.51, Stanford University Press

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• 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

  Real, Healing, Blood

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• When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!

  David Hume

  Religious, Men, Rascals

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