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
philosophical giving corruption
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
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.
philosophy philosophical government
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
hate philosophical thinking
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
human-life guides humans
Custom is the great guide to human life.
reading journey thinking
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
wise wisdom knowledge
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
philosophical eye passion
Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
happiness suits excellent
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
men stupidity arrogance
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.
real joy sorrow
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
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.
believe passion deities
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
men empathy painting
A man posing for a painting.