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

  David Hume

  Men, Stupidity, Arrogance

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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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• Anything that is conceivable is possible.

  David Hume

  Destiny

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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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• Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.

  David Hume

  Real, Philosophical, Vices

  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.245

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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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• No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.

  David Hume

  Communication, Quality, Different

  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.111

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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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• For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

  David Hume

  Pain, Light, Self

  1739 A Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.4, section 6.

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• Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Feelings, Three

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.266

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

  David Hume

  Life, Reason, Guides

  "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding". Book by David Hume, 1758.

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• Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

  David Hume

  Revenge, Praise, Cruelty

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• Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

  David Hume

  Friendship, Spring, Philosophical

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• Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

  David Hume

  Anticipation, Pleasure

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated”, p.405, eKitap Projesi

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• 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.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Passion, Office

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

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• History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

  David Hume

  History, Principles, Human Nature

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