David Hume

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object…

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the…

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge…

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from…

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived…

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny…

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

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the…

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In…

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly…

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most…

Truth springs from argument amongst friends…

The law always limits every power it gives…

Men often act knowingly against their interest…

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them…