David Hume

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness.

David Hume

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

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

The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

David Hume

The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.

David Hume

The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.

David Hume

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

David Hume