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David Hume Quotes

"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words""All plans of government which suppose great reformation in the manners of mankind are plainly imaginary""Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients action pleasure and indolence""The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason""Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions""No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping""Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men the good and the bad But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue""The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst""Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man""Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing which I call thinking is my supreme Happiness""The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny""Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous""Truth springs from argument amongst friends""Custom is the great guide of human life""He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance""When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly most mistaken""It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom""Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them""The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster""A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"