Whatever is clearly conceivable is possible. David Hume View this quote
A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men. David Hume
David Hume
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope. David Hume
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion. David Hume
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
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. David Hume
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. David Hume
All knowledge degenerates into probability. David Hume
All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion. David Hume
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience. David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
May 7th, 1711 - August 25th, 1776