« All David Hume Quotes
·
Benjamin Franklin's Page
David Hume Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
1 David Hume quote by Benjamin Franklin
More Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has 1,221 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
-
Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
-
Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will…
-
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the…
-
[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a…
-
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
-
I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,…
-
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty…
-
Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
-
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two…
-
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less…
-
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
See all 1,221 quotes by Benjamin Franklin »
More David Hume Quotes
Popular David Hume quotes from across the collection:
-
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
— Peter Kreeft
-
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
-
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an…
— Benjamin Franklin
-
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
-
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
-
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary…
— Adam Smith
-
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
— Anne Fadiman
-
I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is…
— Christopher Hitchens
See all David Hume Quotes »
Browse Benjamin Franklin Quotes by Category