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Top 300 David Hume Quotes (2025 Update)

David Hume Quote: “There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.”
David Hume Quote: “All knowledge degenerates into probability.”
David Hume Quote: “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
David Hume Quote: “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
David Hume Quote: “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
David Hume Quote: “If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.”
David Hume Quote: “No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.”
David Hume Quote: “The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
David Hume Quote: “Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.”
David Hume Quote: “Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.”
David Hume Quote: “Anything that is conceivable is possible.”
David Hume Quote: “Which is more likely: that the whole natural order is suspended, or that a jewish minx should tell a lie?”
David Hume Quote: “Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”
David Hume Quote: “A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion.”
David Hume Quote: “Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
David Hume Quote: “Time is a perishable commodity.”
David Hume Quote: “A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.”
David Hume Quote: “Self-denial is a monkish virtue.”
David Hume Quote: “It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.”
David Hume Quote: “Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.”
David Hume Quote: “Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.”
David Hume Quote: “He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.”
David Hume Quote: “For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.”
David Hume Quote: “This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.”
David Hume Quote: “Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.”
David Hume Quote: “The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.”
David Hume Quote: “Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.”
David Hume Quote: “Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.”
David Hume Quote: “The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.”
David Hume Quote: “The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.”
David Hume Quote: “A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
David Hume Quote: “Men often act knowingly against their interest.”
David Hume Quote: “Custom is the great guide to human life.”
David Hume Quote: “That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.”
David Hume Quote: “The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.”
David Hume Quote: “Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person.”
David Hume Quote: “While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.”
David Hume Quote: “Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.”
David Hume Quote: “The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.”
David Hume Quote: “The law always limits every power it gives.”
David Hume Quote: “It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.”
David Hume Quote: “In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.”
David Hume Quote: “Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.”
David Hume Quote: “It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.”
David Hume Quote: “The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other’s emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees.”
David Hume Quote: “What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.”
David Hume Quote: “All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.”
David Hume Quote: “The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.”
David Hume Quote: “Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”
David Hume Quote: “Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy.”
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