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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
— David Hume
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David Hume
philosopher, economist, librarian, historian, essayist, writer
1711 – 1776
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume followed John Locke in rejecting the existence of innate ideas, concluding that all human knowledge derives solely from experience; this places him amongst such empiricists as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Locke and George Berkeley.
All Quotes by David Hume
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
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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.
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
— David Hume
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
— David Hume
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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
— David Hume
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Men often act knowingly against their interest.
— David Hume
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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
— David Hume
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
— David Hume
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
— David Hume