Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. -David Hume Knowledge
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 History
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 History
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. -David Hume Death
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 Knowledge
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 Alone
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 Imagination
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. -David Hume Science
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 Society
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. -David Hume Power
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 Education
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. -David Hume Religion
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. -David Hume Learning
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 Respect
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. -David Hume Religion
