Quotes and Insights by David Hume

Books:

  • A Treatise of Human Nature
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
  • An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
  • The History of England
  • Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
  • My Own Life
  • Of the passions
  • Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals
  • A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh
  • Principal writings on religion
  • Of the Standard of Taste
  • A dissertation on the passions
  • The Natural History of Religion
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature
  • Dialogues sur la religión naturelle
  • Of the Balance of Trade
  • Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
  • Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
  • Of the Original Contract
  • Histoire naturelle de la religion
  • Of Suicide
  • The History of England: 56 BC-1216
  • The Life of David Hume, Esq., Written by Himself. To which is Added, a Letter, from Adam Smith, LL.D. to William Strahan, Esq
  • Reminiscences
  • History of England: From the invasion of Julius Caesar to the revolution in 1688 : A.D. 1515 to A.D. 1558
  • The History of England, Etc
  • “The” History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Accession of George the Fourth
  • Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects … A new edition. To which are added Dialogues concerning natural religion
  • The History of Great Britain: From the Accession of James I. to the Revolution in 1688
  • Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. In Two Volumes. By David Hume, Esq; Vol. 1. -2: Vol. 2. an enquiry concerning human understanding; a dissertation on the passions; an inquiry concerning the principles of morals; and the natural history of religion
  • History of England: From the death of George the Second in 1760 : A.D. 1824 to A.D. 1835
  • Hume’s Enquiry: Expanded and Explained
  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Illustrates
  • History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688: To which is Prefixed, a Short Account of His Life, Written by Himself
  • The History Of England, From The Invasion Of Julius …
  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: Original Classics

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Quotes:

  • “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
  • “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.”
  • “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
  • “Truth springs from arguments amongst friends.”
  • “Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.”
  • “To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.”
  • “Custom is the great guide to human life.”
  • “The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”
  • “It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”
  • “Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.”
  • “The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.”
  • “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
  • “It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.”
  • “Custom is the great guide to human life.”
  • “No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.”