Hume Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

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, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some… — Immanuel Kant
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. — Jean-Baptiste Say
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not… — Kenny Smith
And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in… — Thomas Jefferson
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as… — Wilhelm Dilthey
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 the eighteenth century),… — Michael Shermer
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things,… — Adam Smith
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… — David Hume
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in… — Anne Fadiman
I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is more likely... that… — Christopher Hitchens
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand… — Sydney Smith
S O C H A tha ki wo bahot T O O T kar chahegi hume.. L E K I N.., C H A H… — Unkown
Tere baghair is zindagi ki hume zarurat nahi , tere siwa hume kisi or ki chahat nahi , tum he rahoge humesha mere dil me… — Bhupendra Singh

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