“The law always limits every power it gives.”
Power
“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.”
ReligionAll Quotes by David Hume
“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
History“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.”
Beauty“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
Truth“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”
Best“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.”
Death“Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.”
Nature“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.”
Education“Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”
Nature“Men often act knowingly against their interest.”
Men“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.”
Religion“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”
Patriotism“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
Fear“Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.”
Truth“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.”
Nature“The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.”
History“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.”
Alone“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.”
Design“Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.”
Beauty“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.”
Government