[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an…

“The late Mr. David Hume , in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason; and adds,…

— Erasmus Darwin

“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these truths to…

— Benjamin Franklin

“David Hume, the great­est skep­tic of them all, once remarked that after a gath­er­ing of skep­tics met to pro­claim the verac­i­ty of skep­ti­cism as…

— Philip K. Dick

“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

“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

“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing that David…

— Joe Lonsdale

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David Hume was…

— Chinua Achebe

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Peter Kreeft

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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