David Hume

Philosopher

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David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.

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Quotes by David Hume

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

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

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

The law always limits every power it gives.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

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