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David Hume

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The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.


— David Hume


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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.


— David Hume


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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.


— David Hume


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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.


— David Hume


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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.


— David Hume


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I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.


— David Hume


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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.


— David Hume


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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.


— David Hume


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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.


— David Hume


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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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Hume advocated a compatibilist theory of free will that proved extremely influential on subsequent moral philosophy. Of Miracles section X of the Enquiry was often publiDavid Humed separately. Here he reports that at the age of eighteen "there seem'd to be open'd up to me a new Scene of Thought.

Without direct impressions of a metaphysical "self" he concluded that humans have no actual conception of the self only of a bundle of sensations associated with the self. 26 April] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher historian economist and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and scepticism. Hume advocated a compatibilist theory of free will that proved extremely influential on subsequent moral philosophy.

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