David Hume Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man

The effect is totally different from the cause, and consequently can never be discovered in it.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.