The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. – David Hume
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
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
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. – David Hume