David Hume

"Unquestionably there is progress"

"History is a vast early warning system"

"Music is the language of the gods"

"Death is nothing at all"

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident"

"In all matters it is wholesome to enquire what is the root cause of each thing"

"Eloquence is the painting of thought"

"Be a philosopher in your conduct, though not in your appearance"

"Belief consists in the vivacity of the idea"

"The mind being therefore a kind of theatre of perceptions"

"Treat people as ends, never merely as means"

"The virtues of men are of two kinds"

"It is a perpetual question of wisdom to distinguish the genuine from the spurious"

"There is no method of reasoning more common than that which professional men employ"

"Truth springs from argument amongst friends"

"The bulk of mankind is selfish"

"A man may be proud without being vain"

"The three philosophical relations are resemblance, contrariety, and degree of quality"

"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian were not nature too strong for it"

"All knowledge resolves itself into probability"

"Fire and water are always the same, but the occasions on which they are applied are perpetually varying"

"Nothing can be more contrary to morality than war"

"Ambition without ability is like a sailor steeling a ship without a chart"

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others"

"When we entertain some suspicion that a person is acting from some base motive, we make a small pause"

"The great advantage of conversation is that it engages one's thoughts"

"To love is to admire with the heart"

"Political speculations are really the most delicate and uncertain of any science or profession"

"The life we lead determines the person we become"

"It is not entirely upon the present moment that the moral sentiment depends"