David Hume quote: "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."

The law always limits every power it gives.
DAVID HUME

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi...
DAVID HUME

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
DAVID HUME

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -David Hume.
DAVID HUME

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the...
DAVID HUME

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
DAVID HUME

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
DAVID HUME

Doctor, as I believe you would not choose to tell any thing but the truth, you had better tell him, ...
DAVID HUME

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority c...
DAVID HUME

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

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any...
DAVID HUME

And what is the greatest number? Number one.
DAVID HUME

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
DAVID HUME

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacit...
DAVID HUME

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of princi...
DAVID HUME

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
DAVID HUME

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
DAVID HUME

Avarice, the spur of industry.
DAVID HUME

When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion...
DAVID HUME

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
DAVID HUME

A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is...
DAVID HUME

Custom is the great guide to human life
DAVID HUME

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to ...
DAVID HUME

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker
DAVID HUME

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without...
DAVID HUME

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
DAVID HUME

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
DAVID HUME

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contr...
DAVID HUME

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself e...
DAVID HUME

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is ins...
DAVID HUME

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the ...
DAVID HUME

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vai...
DAVID HUME

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start ...
DAVID HUME

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
DAVID HUME

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of suc...
DAVID HUME

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
DAVID HUME

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
DAVID HUME

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
DAVID HUME

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is the...
DAVID HUME

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...
DAVID HUME

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more fr...
DAVID HUME

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotio...
DAVID HUME

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

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
DAVID HUME

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly th...
DAVID HUME

It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.
DAVID HUME

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
DAVID HUME

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of ...
DAVID HUME

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
DAVID HUME

Custom is the great guide of human life.
DAVID HUME

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
DAVID HUME

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
DAVID HUME

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

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Doe...
DAVID HUME

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
DAVID HUME

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
DAVID HUME

On the theory of the soul
DAVID HUME

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though th...
DAVID HUME

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both p...
DAVID HUME

Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority c...
DAVID HUME

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than wha...
DAVID HUME

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its ...
DAVID HUME

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'
DAVID HUME

Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than t...
DAVID HUME

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
DAVID HUME

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its ...
DAVID HUME

Men often act knowingly against their interest.
DAVID HUME

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound...
DAVID HUME

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, w...
DAVID HUME

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does...
DAVID HUME

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
DAVID HUME

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
DAVID HUME

The slaving poor are incapable of any principles
DAVID HUME

Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature t...
DAVID HUME

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
DAVID HUME

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sci...
DAVID HUME

In simple terms, the data shows that in mammals each individual gene uses multiple different mechani...
DAVID HUME

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of suc...
DAVID HUME

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds
DAVID HUME

I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, al...
DAVID HUME

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed t...
DAVID HUME

The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; an...
DAVID HUME

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, ...
DAVID HUME

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to...
DAVID HUME

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
DAVID HUME

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty
DAVID HUME

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, o...
DAVID HUME

[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)
DAVID HUME

All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always re...
DAVID HUME

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be ...
DAVID HUME

But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should ...
DAVID HUME

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from...
DAVID HUME

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...
DAVID HUME

Everything in the world is purchased by labor
DAVID HUME

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUME

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if...
DAVID HUME

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past...
DAVID HUME

I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of dif...
DAVID HUME

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...
DAVID HUME

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
DAVID HUME

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason
DAVID HUME

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place, ... It's when we start spilli...
DAVID HUME

Avarice, the spur of industry
DAVID HUME

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
DAVID HUME

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous
DAVID HUME

I began to entertain a suspicion, that no man in this age was sufficiently qualified for such an und...
DAVID HUME

Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
DAVID HUME

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
DAVID HUME

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
DAVID HUME

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour...
DAVID HUME

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mir...
DAVID HUME

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to...
DAVID HUME

Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? th...
DAVID HUME

So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first a...
DAVID HUME

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
DAVID HUME

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
DAVID HUME

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves th...
DAVID HUME

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all t...
DAVID HUME

Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, writt...
DAVID HUME

When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whe...
DAVID HUME

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...
DAVID HUME

Our senses inform us of the colour, weight, and consistence of bread; but neither sense nor reason c...
DAVID HUME

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
HUME

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

No one ever saw it from that point of view. Jerry says Michael works with the intensity of a bomb sq...
DAVID HUME KENNERLY

(The sitcom) touches so many people. The world would not have suffered had I not done this. This sho...
DAVID HUME KENNERLY

The book is really important in the sense that this is gonna be it.
DAVID HUME KENNERLY

It was so bizarre. I will admit however that my 14-year-old son, Byron, really bugged me about findi...
DAVID HUME KENNERLY

(Jerry) and I hit it off. He's a very professional man. He was good to his word.
DAVID HUME KENNERLY

World events pale by comparison.
DAVID HUME KENNERLY

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibl...
GARY HUME

One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might de...
GARY HUME

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. ...
GARY HUME

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, ...
GARY HUME

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
GARY HUME

My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
GARY HUME

I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my ...
GARY HUME

I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made th...
GARY HUME

The surface is all you get of me.
GARY HUME

I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a...
GARY HUME

Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. I...
GARY HUME

I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better,...
GARY HUME

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn'...
GARY HUME

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly chan...
GARY HUME

I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories ...
GARY HUME

It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, ...
GARY HUME

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
GARY HUME

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human wo...
GARY HUME

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what'...
GARY HUME

People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered w...
GARY HUME

If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at...
GARY HUME

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. Th...
GARY HUME

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full o...
GARY HUME

I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous a...
GARY HUME

I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
GARY HUME

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but the...
BRIT HUME

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering...
BASIL HUME

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his...
BASIL HUME

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it i...
HUME CRONYN

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I w...
BASIL HUME

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
HUME CRONYN

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, ga...
ALEXANDER HUME

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we sho...
JOHN HUME

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played...
BRIT HUME

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland...
JOHN HUME

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
BRIT HUME

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we no...
BRIT HUME

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days ...
BASIL HUME

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
JOHN HUME

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people...
JOHN HUME

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almos...
JOHN HUME

It was a great feeling. It's a good one to remember and would have been a lot worse if we lost. It's...
ALEX HUME

I had my match then let it go. You get out there and start thinking you are better than what you are...
ALEX HUME

This was a good chance to get an early win that'll help us later in the year. It's definitely what w...
ALEX HUME

I came out a little nervous, a little tight. Once I got up a few breaks, I just found my rhythm and ...
ALEX HUME

He is a real solid player; he has a real solid game. He's the strongest guy on the team and he has a...
ALEX HUME

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a j...
GARY HUME

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
JOHN HUME

You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphic...
BRIT HUME

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class ...
JOHN HUME

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently,...
JOSEPH HUME

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.
HUME CRONYN

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 ...
HUME CRONYN

If my e-mail is any guide, and the things I'm hearing from just people in the street that you talk t...
BRIT HUME

He was unapologetic of the handling of the information and insisted it was appropriate.
BRIT HUME

And when they are distracted and there are worries about them, that spreads. So there is a sense of ...
BRIT HUME

These are not small figures in this administration.
BRIT HUME

was considerably tongue-in-cheek, and some of the responses have been notably humorless. Lighten up ...
BRIT HUME

Well, we got wiped out in Camille, but we rebuild. We love it here. And we'll rebuild again.
BRIT HUME

oblivious, in denial, and dangerous
BRIT HUME

any time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad.
BRIT HUME

What about this question of advanced knowledge of what was going to happen on September 11? How clea...
BRIT HUME

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
BRIT HUME

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they fel...
BRIT HUME

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
HUME CRONYN

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was ve...
JOHN HUME

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikane...
JOHN HUME

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, ...
BASIL HUME

All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, ...
ALEXANDER HUME

The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight, And painted is the occident ...
ALEXANDER HUME

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

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