Species Quotes by David Hume

11 Species quotes by David Hume

When you want a philosophical angle, these eleven Hume excerpts explore how our ideas about species intersect with reason and experience. They provide a concise glimpse into his skeptical worldview.

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In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species…

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.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,…

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Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,…

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Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the…

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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt…

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It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all…

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For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,…

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But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to…

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But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into…

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There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived…

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The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate…

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We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation…

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The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…

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The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

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Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the…

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