Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. - David Hume 1 Share Now -
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. - David Hume 2 Share Now -
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. - David Hume 4 Share Now -
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. - David Hume 5 Share Now -
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. - David Hume 6 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. - David Hume 10 Share Now -
