Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. David Hume Read Quote
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. David Hume Read Quote
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. David Hume Read Quote
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. David Hume Read Quote
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. David Hume Read Quote
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. David Hume Read Quote
