Hume, David

"Courage is the most respected of all virtues."

"The mind of man is composed of nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions."

"Reason alone is insufficient to motivate any action of the will."

"The love of glory is a powerful incentive to excellence."

"Tradition is often the guardian of truth."

"A man is much more attached to his native country than any philosophical principles."

"The practice of virtue is the only path to true happiness."

"Society is not founded on the truth, but on the useful fiction of justice."

"The life of man is of some importance to himself."

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

"A man is free to choose what he wills, but he wills what he must."

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."

"The true skeptic will be diffident of his philosophical doubts as well as of his philosophical convictions."

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."

"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish."

"There is a great difference between a great lover and a great man."

"Human nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."

"The world is nothing but a heap of atoms or atoms and void."

"Genius is the ability to overcome the constraints of conventional thinking."

"I am nothing but a bundle of perceptions."

"The remedy of this defective sympathy in our judgments of the characters and conduct of others, must be attended with some difficulty."

"All the philosophy in the world will not make us happier, but wisdom might."

"History is a collection of errors repeated again and again."

"In all the affairs of life, custom and repetition have a wonderful power."

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

"The mind of man is composed of successive perceptions."

"Ambition is a powerful passion, but reason may direct its course."

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

"To be a philosophical skeptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian."

"Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of their commodities."