Quotes by David Hume

“There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.”

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

“All knowledge degenerates into probability.”

“If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.”

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.”

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”

“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”

“To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.”

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”

“It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.”

“I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.”

“Anything that is conceivable is possible.”