Hume Quotes

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There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

To question reason is to trust it.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

[On David Hume]Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of them all.

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning