David Hume

"We are nothing but a bundle of different perceptions."

"A man of sense and education should endeavor to avoid such troublesome, incurable company."

"Avarice is the spur of industry, yet the end of avarice is never attained."

"The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation."

"Desperation and despair is the only remedy for superstition."

"All abstract ideas are derived from impressions of sense."

"The understanding always begins with a miracle."

"The greatest pleasure in life is conversation."

"In our reasonings concerning matter of fact there are all imaginable degrees of assurance."

"A man may promise himself anything almost without danger of deception."

"The world appears to everyone in a different light."

"Nothing is required but to reflect on any of the actions suggested by these passions."

"Custom is the great guide of human life."

"The life of man is of some importance. His happiness is of still greater importance."

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."

"Generally speaking, the errors and irregularities of human conduct are not to be reformed by subtle reasonings."

"Men are much more governed by what they feel than by what they think."

"There is not to be found in all history any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men."

"Reason alone cannot produce any moral action, or give rise to any volition."

"It is rare to find a man more capable of bearing adversity than prosperity."

"Ambition is a powerful passion, but is not always vicious."

"The sweetest and most intimate attachments are always the most tyrannical."

"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."

"Wonder, or astonishment, is a violent and sudden passion."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Science is not about explaining the world, but describing how it works."

"I never assented to the maxim that business is business."

"The corruption of the best things produces the worst."

"We must renounce the theory that the perception of truth is a distinct talent."