David Hume - Best Quotes

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Men

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

David Hume

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Knowledge

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

David Hume

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

History

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the fancy as it improves the understanding and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the fancy as it improves the understanding and as it strengthens virtue.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Author: David Hume

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

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian were not nature too strong for it.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the fancy as it improves the understanding and as it strengthens virtue.