“Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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 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
“Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna YeH Hum Nahi Jaante.. Magar jee Nahi Sakte Tumhare Bina.. — Dabbang Damsel Copy Share Image
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the… — Adam Smith 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
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
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
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Berkeley , Hume, Kant , Fichte , Hegel , James , Bergson all are united in one earnest attempt, the attempt to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
“David Hume, the greatest skeptic of them all, once remarked that after a gathering of skeptics met to proclaim the veracity of… — Philip K. Dick 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 sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin 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
“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned… — Andrew Bernstein 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
“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Hume, Huxley, and other "immanent " psychologists, tried to identify the conception with a mere generalisation, so making no distinction between logical… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope,… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in… — Michael Shermer 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
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as… — Edwin Percy Whipple 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
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