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In either case he is not God. David Hume. Evil, Religion, Doe. 117 Copy quote. Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume. Positive, Beauty, Philosophical. 159 Copy quote. Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
The difference to the whole will be no greater betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air. The one change is of more importance to me than the other; but not more so to the universe. David Hume. Air, Differences, Principles. David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.412.
In either case he is not God. David Hume. Evil, Religion, Doe. The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. David Hume. Pregnancy, Ethics, Morality. Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society. David Hume.
David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.209, 谷月社 No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.
David Hume (2013). “Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects”, p.290, Broadview Press These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as well as the other, be solid and satisfactory, and that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions.
David Hume (2013). “Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects”, p.214, Broadview Press There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of the medium, the distance of the object, and the disposition of the organ, in order to render them, within their sphere, the proper criteria of truth and falsehood. David Hume. Distance, Order, Spheres.
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society. David Hume (2015).
David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.180 Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees. David Hume. Passion, Men, Mirrors. David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce ...
