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Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes - David Hume Quotes

Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds - David Hume Quotes

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds

In simple terms, the data shows that in mammals each individual gene uses multiple different mechanisms to produce different forms of protein. In a sense, each 'gene' is actually multiple different genes, - David Hume Quotes

In simple terms, the data shows that in mammals each individual gene uses multiple different mechanisms to produce different forms of protein. In a sense, each 'gene' is actually multiple different genes,

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker - David Hume Quotes

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

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish - David Hume Quotes

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy. - David Hume Quotes

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man - David Hume Quotes

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

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. - David Hume Quotes

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

Scottish Philosopher

The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind - David Hume Quotes

The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind

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. - David Hume Quotes

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.

Scottish Philosopher

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 Quotes

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

Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature than the sentiment of benevolence in an eminent degree; and that a part at least of its merit arises from its tendency to promote the interests of our - David Hume Quotes

Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature than the sentiment of benevolence in an eminent degree; and that a part at least of its merit arises from its tendency to promote the interests of our

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability - David Hume Quotes

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability

Avarice, the spur of industry - David Hume Quotes

Avarice, the spur of industry

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty - David Hume Quotes

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

Fear

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. - David Hume Quotes

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Argument Scottish Philosopher

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought' - David Hume Quotes

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

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity - David Hume Quotes

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

Fly

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities - David Hume Quotes

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. - David Hume Quotes

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

Custom Scottish Philosopher

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. - David Hume Quotes

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

Character Scottish Philosopher

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 Quotes

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

The slaving poor are incapable of any principles - David Hume Quotes

The slaving poor are incapable of any principles

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. - David Hume Quotes

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

Contrary Scottish Philosopher

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves - David Hume Quotes

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them - David Hume Quotes

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. - David Hume Quotes

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

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. - David Hume Quotes

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'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 Quotes

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.

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to - David Hume Quotes

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to

Everything in the world is purchased by labor - David Hume Quotes

Everything in the world is purchased by labor

Labor

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence - David Hume Quotes

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. - David Hume Quotes

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty Scottish Philosopher

Custom is the great guide to human life - David Hume Quotes

Custom is the great guide to human life

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous - David Hume Quotes

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

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances - David Hume Quotes

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. - David Hume Quotes

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

Kind Scottish Philosopher

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason - David Hume Quotes

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason

And what is the greatest number? Number one. - David Hume Quotes

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Scottish Philosopher

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being. - David Hume Quotes

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

The law always limits every power it gives. - David Hume Quotes

The law always limits every power it gives.

Scottish Philosopher

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. - David Hume Quotes

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

Custom Scottish Philosopher

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. - David Hume Quotes

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account - David Hume Quotes

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account

But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature - David Hume Quotes

But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature

Folly

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work - David Hume Quotes

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. - David Hume Quotes

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

Man Scottish Philosopher

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition. - David Hume Quotes

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Action Happiness

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. - David Hume Quotes

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

Rest

Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few - David Hume Quotes

Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few

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