David Hume Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 can suit his temper to any circumstances.

While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy, so agreeable to the natural vanity and curiosity of men; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude. Here then I leave you to labour alone; You treat me in the same manner. The seasons change; and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.