59 ordspråk av David Hume
David Hume
David Hume föddes den May 7th 1711 och dog den 25 August 1776 - Scottish philosopher
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 The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. |
| The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to |
| The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds |
| The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason |
| The slaving poor are incapable of any principles |
| 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 |
| There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves |
| Truth springs from argument amongst friends. |
| 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 |
| What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought' |
| When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities |
| When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities |
| When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities |
| 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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