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• I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

  David Hume

  God, Causes, Absurd

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• Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

  David Hume

  Giving, Quality, Opinion

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.206

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• From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.

  David Hume

  Causes, Conclusion, Effects

  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Section IV (p. 35)

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• Custom is the great guide to human life.

  David Hume

  Guides, Human Life, Humans

  Terence Penelhum, David Hume (1992). “David Hume: an introduction to his philosophical system”, Purdue Univ Pr

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• It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

  David Hume

  Book, Eye, Air

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.697, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  David Hume

  Men, World, May

  David Hume (2006). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.561, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

  David Hume

  Theologian, Malady, Seems

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• Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

  David Hume

  Expectations, Understanding, May

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• The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.

  David Hume

  Running, Men, Order

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.180

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• The law always limits every power it gives.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Power, Law

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.207

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• The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.

  David Hume

  Lazy, Lively, Stills

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.21, tredition

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• The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

  David Hume

  Christian, Religious, Miracle

  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding "Of Miracles" (1748)

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• The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  'Four Dissertations' (1757) 'The Natural History of Religion' sect. 15

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• Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

  David Hume

  Friendship, Passion, Long

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.161, VM eBooks

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• How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

  David Hume

  Elephants, Looks, Stories

  David Hume (2013). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Brain, Agitation

  David Hume (1854). “The Philosophical Works”, p.438

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• No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, World, Advantage

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.81

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• Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

  David Hume

  Powerful, Sorrow, Influence

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.263

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• Avarice, the spur of industry.

  David Hume

  Spurs, Industry, Avarice

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'Of Civil Liberty'

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• Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

  David Hume

  Ignorance, Pride, Together

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• Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

  David Hume

  Taste, Study, Painting

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.579, Delphi Classics

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• The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Perfect

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.31

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• It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Easy, Certain

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

  David Hume

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

  David Hume

  Men, Vanity, Flames

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