Hume Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
— Peter Kreeft
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Hume Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Hume Quotes as follows: