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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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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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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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker
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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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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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Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature than the sentiment of benevolence in an eminent degree; and that a part at least of its merit arises from its tendency to promote the interests of our
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
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The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.