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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 "A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker" |
| "A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker" |
| A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty |
| A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence |
| All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability |
| All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability |
| Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes |
| And what is the greatest number? Number one. |
| Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity |
| Avarice, the spur of industry |
| Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man |
| Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. |
| Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them |
| But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature |
| Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. |
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