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

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• David Hume:

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

• David Hume:

  Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

• David Hume:

  To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a soun

• David Hume:

  To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

• David Hume:

  Men often act knowingly against their interest.

• David Hume:

  Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In va

• David Hume:

  The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be

• David Hume:

  Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than wh

• David Hume:

  This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is in

• David Hume:

  Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so po