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David Hume Quotes

David Hume quotes about humanity

Scottish Philosopher May 7, 1711 – August 25, 1776

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The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and humanity are commonly neglected. 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. Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There... David Hume
David Hume quote: "Custom is the great guide to human life."
Custom is the great guide to human life. David Hume
We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition. David Hume
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. David Hume
As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature. David Hume
David Hume quote: "Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been..."
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. David Hume
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignoranceand obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and notto admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which issupported by no appearance of probability. David Hume
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 David Hume
David Hume quote: "The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of..."
The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. David Hume
When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested they are, they only become the more ridiculous and the more odious. David Hume

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