David-hume Quote by Adam Smith

“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

“[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of…

— Jonathan Miller

“Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of…

— Adam Smith

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

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have…

— Thomas Aquinas

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as…

— Samuel Adams

“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

“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

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