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Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

David Hume

A little philosophy makes a man an atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

David Hume

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

David Hume

Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.

David Hume

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

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

David Hume

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

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.

David Hume

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

David Hume