David Hume
David Hume
David Hume– 25 August 1776) or David Homewas a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth7 May 1711
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There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
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It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
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Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few
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The slaving poor are incapable of any principles
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The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind
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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
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That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker
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In simple terms, the data shows that in mammals each individual gene uses multiple different mechanisms to produce different forms of protein. In a sense, each 'gene' is actually multiple different genes,
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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place, ... It's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.