Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man