Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but…

In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new physical phenomenon…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Hume is indeed sceptical about the possibility of metaphysical insights that go deeper than science can, he is not at all sceptical about the…

— David Hume

“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

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

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

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

“To question reason is to trust it.”

— Mitch Stokes

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

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

“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

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

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

— Ann Coulter

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

“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

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