Birth Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Which is more likely: that the whole natural order is suspended, or that a jewish minx should tell a lie?

— David Hume

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

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of…

— 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

It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing that David…

— Joe Lonsdale

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David Hume was…

— Chinua Achebe

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a…

— Noam Chomsky

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

“[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

“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of…

— Adam Smith