David Hume

It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.

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

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

David Hume

The law always limits every power which it bestows.

David Hume

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

David Hume

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Hume

What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to the knowledge of it without difficulty, and without any stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded.

David Hume

What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.

David Hume

Any expression of pride and haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into a comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

David Hume