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
god causes absurd
I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.
lying order natural
Which is more likely: that the whole natural order is suspended, or that a jewish minx should tell a lie?
wise intelligent ideas
... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.
history use principles
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
religious men rascals
When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!
humility passion men
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.
real healing blood
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.
school math flames
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 quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
ideas firsts events
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.
liars air giving
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions...
men world may
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
philosophical brain littles
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
hate philosophical thinking
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
christian religious miracle
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.