Hume failed to understand that paranormal phenomena do not…

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A vocation is a terrible thing. To be called out of nature into the supernatural life is at first (or perhaps not quite at…

— C.S. Lewis

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

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

“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