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David Hume
Profession : Philosopher
Birth : May 7, 1711
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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
David Hume
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.
David Hume
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
David Hume
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
David Hume
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.
David Hume
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
David Hume
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
David Hume
Custom is the great guide to human life.
David Hume
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
David Hume
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
David Hume
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.
David Hume
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.
David Hume
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.
David Hume
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
David Hume
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