David Hume quotes
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist renowned for his influential works on empiricism and skepticism. His writings challenged traditional notions of human knowledge and emphasized the role of experience and observation. He remains a foundational figure in the history of Western philosophy. Here are 193 of his quotes:
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. That it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.
David Hume
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
David Hume
David Hume
Occupation: Scottish Philosopher
Born: April 26, 1711
Died: August 25, 1776
Quotes count: 193
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