An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Quotes

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

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:naturereason

“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:reasonweakness

“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:beliefimagination

“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:futuresciencecontrol

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

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:manphilosophy

“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:learningscienceprogress

“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:humanityphilosophyweakness

“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:experienceappearance

“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:experiencescience

“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