“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas… — William James Copy Share Image
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would guess it didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word… — Jack Cafferty Copy Share Image
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
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