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Byline: DAVID HUME How do we know what we know? What do we know? To that most lucid of Scottish empiricists, David Hume (1711-1776), the answer to the first question [...]

QUOTE: 'Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation [...]

QUOTE: 'It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: Life and [...]

QUOTE: 'The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom [...]

QUOTE: 'Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.' [...]

QUOTE: 'And what is the greatest number? Number one.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the [...]

QUOTE: 'The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom [...]

QUOTE: 'Avarice, the spur of industry.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The law always limits every power it gives.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: Thoughts and [...]

QUOTE: 'Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.' --Hume, David SUBJECT: [...]