David Hume
Scottish Philosopher, Historian
Lived from: 1711 - 1776
Category: History and sociology | Philosophers Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 7 may 1711 Died: 25 august 1776
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding― David Hume -
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
A Treatise of Human Nature― David Hume -
The law always limits every power it gives.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
On Suicide― David Hume -
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos’d
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)― David Hume -
Thus we feign the continu’d existence of the perceptions of our senses, to remove the interruption; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation.
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)― David Hume -
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
― David Hume
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