David Hume Quotes

“The general observations treasured up by a course of experience, give us the clue of human nature, and teach us to unravel all its intricacies. Pretexts and appearances no longer deceive us.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:experience appearance

“In vain, therefore, should we pretend to determine any single event, or infer any cause or effect, without the assistance of observation and experience.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:experience science

“The appearance of a cause always conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the idea of the effect.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:appearance

“Philosophers, that give themselves airs of superior wisdom and sufficiency, have a hard task when they encounter persons of inquisitive dispositions, who push them from every corner to which they retreat, and who are sure at last to bring them to...”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:philosophy contradiction

“The imagination has the command over all its ideas, and can join and mix and vary them, in all the ways possible.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:imagination

“Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:simplicity

“That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:contradiction

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