David Hume

"Education makes us what we are."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice."

"Peace is the foundation upon which happiness is built."

"A person is happy when they understand themselves."

"Nature leads us through her own path."

"All human knowledge begins with wonder."

"The mind is a kind of theater where various perceptions make their appearance."

"Common life is the system of our ordinary concerns and transactions."

"We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and reason."

"A man may own himself ruined who has lost his reputation."

"The greater the interest in life, the greater the interest in metaphysics."

"Freedom is the natural right of all humans."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"True happiness cannot be found in external circumstances alone."

"Time runs away with us before we know it."

"The principles of true morality are derived from our natural sentiments."

"In the middle of winter, we find within ourselves an invincible summer."

"Genius is nothing but great capacity for patience."

"Eloquence is the art of persuading through pleasure."

"Our passions are the only orators which always persuade."

"Belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our nature."

"The quest for beauty is a natural human impulse."

"We are born to act, and our understanding is of little use to us if not employed in life."

"All argument is against it, but all belief is for it."

"No passion is so human as the desire for reputation."

"Conversation is the art of keeping ourselves alive."

"A man's temper must be of a peculiar kind who can entertain deep attachments without resentment."

"The mind of man is of so restless a nature that it cannot long subsist in its present condition."

"All our knowledge degenerates into probability."

"Suppose a person never to have been made acquainted with society. He would not form any notion of moral distinctions."