Author: David Hume

Quotes

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

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

- David Hume

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

- David Hume

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.

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.

- David Hume

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

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

- David Hume

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

- David Hume

The law always limits every power it gives.

The law always limits every power it gives.

- David Hume

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

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

- David Hume

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

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

- David Hume

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

- David Hume

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