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When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
— David Hume
All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality ...
— John Hume
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
— David Hume
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
— John Hume
I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
— David Hume
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.
— David Hume
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
God can intervene in the universe he created despite what David Hume says.
— Norman L. Geisler
Question everything - ban nothing
— Mick Hume
Live your dreams, not your fears! A.Hume
— Albina Hume
See you in another life, brotha.
— Desmond Hume
Obtruded on us by the Scottish historians. [* Chron. Sax. p. 19.] [** W. Malms, p. 19.]
— David Hume
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.
— David Hume
That a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.
— David Hume
Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.
— David Hume
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
— David Hume
The Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books, a list that came to include almost every significant work of post-medieval Western philosophy.
— David Hume
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
— David Hume
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
— David Hume
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
— David Hume
The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters,
— David Hume
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
— Brit Hume
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
— David Hume
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.
— David Hume
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
— Joseph Hume
You will find very exquisite flowers sometime even on a dust-heap, as well as where humanity grows thickest and rankest.
— Hume Nisbet
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
— Peter Kreeft
Scotland is a great country and many wonderful things have come out of this country, however England gets the glory.
— Joseph Hume
From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.
— David Hume
Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
— Brit Hume
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions ...
— David Hume
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.
— David Hume
Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.
— John Hume
I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
— Gary Hume
The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.
— David Hume
Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.
— David Hume
Absolute monarchy, ... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.
— David Hume
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.
— Brit Hume
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
— Gary Hume
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
— David Hume
We did not seek ideological confrontation.
— John Hume
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
— David Hume
Time is a perishable commodity.
— David Hume
No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
— David Hume
When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.
— David Hume
In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place ... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
— David Hume
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
— David Hume
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.
— Joseph Hume
A man posing for a painting.
— David Hume
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
— David Hume
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
— David Hume
Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
— David Hume
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
— David Hume
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
— Joseph Hume
Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.
— David Hume
Interest is the barometer of the state ...
— David Hume
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
— Basil Hume
Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
— David Hume
Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.
— David Hume
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.
— David Hume
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
— David Hume
People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.
— Brit Hume
[Rousseau is] the person whom I most revere both for the Force of [his] Genius and the Greatness of [his] mind [ ... ]
— David Hume
This question depends upon the definition of the word, Nature, than which there is none more ambiguous and equivocal.
— David Hume
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
— Alexander Hume
To question reason is to trust it.
— Mitch Stokes