Famous Quotes by David Hume

Below are famous quotes by David Hume - Scottish historian & philosopher (1711 - 1776).

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

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

Custom is the great guide of human life.

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

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