Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the…

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of…

— Adam Smith

“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his…

— William Barrett

The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth…

— Michael Shermer

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

— Ann Coulter

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of…

— Adam Smith

Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and Hume and…

— Oliver DeMille

“To question reason is to trust it.”

— Mitch Stokes

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,…

— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the…

— Catherine Wilson

A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated…

— Anne Fadiman

“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned thought in…

— Andrew Bernstein

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for…

— Allan Bloom

Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to reinstate man…

— David Hume