He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately have the most tragical conclusion, and most terminate in destruction to the greater number, and in a total dissolution of society to the rest.
David HumeIf ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
David HumeReading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
David HumeHappy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.
David Hume