If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
David HumeThe end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.
David HumeIt is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
David HumeDelicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.
David Hume