David Hume Philosopher Quotations
"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."
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
"A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence."
"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds."
"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
"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."
"That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more
contradiction,
than the affirmation, that it will rise. "
"Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man."