David Hume

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

David Hume

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

David Hume

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

David Hume

Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

David Hume

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

Beyond the constant conjunction of similar objects, and the consequent inference from one to the other, we have no notion of any necessity, or connexion.

David Hume

Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

David Hume

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

David Hume