David Hume Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

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

“Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”

“The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.”

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

“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”

“There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.”

“And what is the greatest number? Number one.”

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

“Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.”