David Hume Quotes

“Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:pain light

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:nature experience science

“Nature will always maintain her rights, and prevail in the end over any abstract reasoning whatsoever.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:nature reason

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

topic:reason passion

“No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:reason weakness

“I say, then, that 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, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:belief imagination

“The only immediate utility of all sciences, is to teach us, how to control and regulate future events by their causes.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:future science control

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

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:man philosophy

“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:learning science progress

“the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:humanity philosophy weakness

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