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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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
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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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Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
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History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
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Truth is disputable, not human taste.
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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
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Custom is the great guide to human life.
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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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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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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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How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?