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.. all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past.... Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses (David Hume Quotes)
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely from that love of simplicity which has been the source of much false reasoning in philosophy (David Hume Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful in the grand fabric, as when they composed this individual creature. The difference to the whole will be no greater betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air. The one change is of more importance to me than the other; but not more so to the universe (David Hume Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors (David Hume Quotes)
Money... Is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy (David Hume Quotes)
In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it (David Hume Quotes)
The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it (David Hume Quotes)
To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty (David Hume Quotes)
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting (David Hume Quotes)
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence (David Hume Quotes)
Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life (David Hume Quotes)
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery (David Hume Quotes)
Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprises even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human passions (David Hume Quotes)
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person (David Hume Quotes)
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind (David Hume Quotes)
Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence (David Hume Quotes)
It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular (David Hume Quotes)
All sentiment is sight; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right (David Hume Quotes)
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination (David Hume Quotes)
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 Quotes)
A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men (David Hume Quotes)
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity (David Hume Quotes)
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness (David Hume Quotes)