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Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus (David Hume Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense (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 (David Hume Quotes)
As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature (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 (David Hume Quotes)
Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility (David Hume Quotes)
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian (David Hume Quotes)
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability (David Hume Quotes)
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world (David Hume Quotes)
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about (David Hume Quotes)
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature (David Hume Quotes)
The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind (David Hume Quotes)
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion (David Hume Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men’s dreams (David Hume Quotes)
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate (David Hume Quotes)
And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling (David Hume Quotes)
In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present... In short, the different ranks of men are, in a great measure, regulated by riches (David Hume Quotes)
Which is more likely: that the whole natural order is suspended, or that a jewish minx should tell a lie? (David Hume Quotes)
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other’s emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees (David Hume Quotes)
What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and without and stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded (David Hume Quotes)
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events (David Hume Quotes)
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices (David Hume Quotes)
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive (David Hume Quotes)
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit (David Hume Quotes)
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one (David Hume Quotes)
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society (David Hume Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)