Quotes from David Hume

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.