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David Hume, Philosopher
Occup.Philosopher
FromScotland
BornMay 7, 1711
Edinburgh, Scotland
DiedAugust 25, 1776
Edinburgh, Scotland
Aged65 years
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, economist and historian. He is considered one of the most important figures in the western filosofis history and the Scottish Enlightenment. Although in recent years interest in Hume's work is centered around his philosophical works, it was as a historian that he first became famous. His work History of Great Britain was the standard work for the English history in sixty to seventy years until the release of the History of England by TB Macaulay. He laid the foundation for Darwin's evolutionary theory with his idea of ​​man as a very advanced animals, in contrast to the until then dominating conception of man in God's image.

Historians look mainly at the humeanske philosophy as a form of deep skepticism, but others argue that naturalism is an equally important part of his thoughts. Hume's followers have tended to oscillate from those who emphasize the skeptical element, such as the logical positivists, and those who emphasize the naturalistic elements, such as Don Garrett, Norman Kemp Smith, Kerri Skinner, Barry Stroud, and Galen Strawson.

Hume was heavily influenced by empirical tests, John Locke and George Berkeley, along with several French-language writers such as Pierre Bayle, and several figures in the English-speaking intellectual landscape such as Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith and Joseph Butler.

Our collection contains 46 quotes who is written / told by David, under the main topics: Men - Beauty.

Related authors: Isaac Newton (Mathematician), John Stuart Mill (Philosopher), Pierre Bayle (Philosopher), John Locke (Philosopher), Joseph Butler (Clergyman), George Berkeley (Philosopher), Adam Smith (Economist), Philo (Philosopher)

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46 Famous quotes by David Hume

Small: David Hume: Men often act knowingly against their interest
"Men often act knowingly against their interest"
Small: David Hume: Its when we start working together that the real healing takes place... its when we start spilling
"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"
Small: David Hume: It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once"
Small: David Hume: Everything in the world is purchased by labor
"Everything in the world is purchased by labor"
Small: David Hume: Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself
"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding"
Small: David Hume: Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals
"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals"
Small: David Hume: Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived
"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived"
Small: David Hume: The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more
"The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application"
Small: David Hume: It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom
"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom"
Small: David Hume: Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man
"Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man"
Small: David Hume: Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment.
"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other"
Small: David Hume: Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them"
Small: David Hume: The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny"
Small: David Hume: Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part o
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue"
Small: David Hume: A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of th
"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"
Small: David Hume: To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see all this is nothing but to perceive
"To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive"
Small: David Hume: The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster
"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster"
Small: David Hume: The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst"
Small: David Hume: That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more con
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise"
Small: David Hume: Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other offi
"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"
Small: David Hume: It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my
"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger"
Small: David Hume: Avarice, the spur of industry
"Avarice, the spur of industry"
Small: David Hume: The law always limits every power it gives
"The law always limits every power it gives"
Small: David Hume: Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so p
"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence"
Small: David Hume: Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions
"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions"
Small: David Hume: It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave
"It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave"
Small: David Hume: He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to an
"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance"
Small: David Hume: A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker
"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker"
Small: David Hume: This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is i
"This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society"
Small: David Hume: There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emot
"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it"
Small: David Hume: I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies except indeed all the Whigs, all
"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians"
Small: David Hume: Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected
"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected"
Small: David Hume: Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure,
"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches"
Small: David Hume: The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason
"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason"
Small: David Hume: The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot b
"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"
Small: David Hume: Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge
"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge"
Small: David Hume: Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them"
Small: David Hume: Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed
"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity"
Small: David Hume: And what is the greatest number? Number one
"And what is the greatest number? Number one"
Small: David Hume: To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sou
"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian"
Small: David Hume: There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of s
"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves"
Small: David Hume: Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous
"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous"
Small: David Hume: Custom is the great guide to human life
"Custom is the great guide to human life"
Small: David Hume: Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than w
"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain"
Small: David Hume: A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence"
Small: David Hume: A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty
"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty"