Quotes by : David Hume

I began to entertain a suspicion, that no man in this age was sufficiently qualified for such an undertaking;....

Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written....

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable,....

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

Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference....

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any....

Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage....

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

Explanation is where the mind rests.

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