David Hume Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

  David Hume

  History, Principles, Use

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.90

• Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

  David Hume

  Art, Nature, Men

  1741-2 Essays Moral, Political and Literary,'The Epicurean'.

• History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

  David Hume

  History, Principles, Human Nature

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