22 Quotations by David Hume
- 1. Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
- 2. Avarice, the spur of industry.
- 3. Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
- 4. Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- 5. Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
- 6. Custom is the great guide of human life.
- 7. Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
- 8. Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself e ...
- 9. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to an ...
- 10. Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though th ...
- 11. If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Doe ...
- 12. It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
- 13. It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
- 14. It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
- 15. Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
- 16. The law always limits every power it gives.
- 17. The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
- 18. The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
- 19. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
- 20. Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
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