David Hume Quotes

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~ David Hume

Argument;

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
~ David Hume

Ambition;

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.
~ David Hume

Christianity;

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
~ David Hume

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
~ David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
~ David Hume

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
~ David Hume

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

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
~ David Hume

Custom;