David Hume, 1711 - 1776
Oil on canvas by Allan Ramsay (1766)
Born: 11 May 1711 (26 April OS), Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: 25 August 1776, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- 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. permalink
David Hume - A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. permalink
David Hume - A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. permalink
David Hume - Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. permalink
David Hume - All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion. permalink
David Hume - Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected; contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness. permalink
David Hume - Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. permalink
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. permalink
David Hume - By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will. permalink
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) - Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite to the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion. permalink
David Hume - Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. permalink
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) - Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery. permalink
David Hume - Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries. permalink
David Hume - Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. permalink
David Hume - Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. permalink
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