David Hume | Philosopher & Historian ✍️

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.

Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

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

It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.