Quotes from David Hume

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

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.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

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

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

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

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.