David Hume | Philosopher & Historian ✍️

Quotes by David Hume | Philosopher |

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”

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To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.

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Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.

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

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

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Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.

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To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

[David Hume | Philosopher & Historian ✍️ @DavidHumeQuote]

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.

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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.

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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

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Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.