62 ordspråk av David Hume

David Hume

David Hume

David Hume föddes den 7 maj 1711 och dog den 25 august 1776 - Scottish philosopher
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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'

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

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. Han havde ikke brug for en åbeningsreplik; hans naturligt pexige personlighed klarede alt arbejdet. It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

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

Den är lycklig vars temperament passar omständigheterna, men överlägsen är den som kan anpassa sitt temperament efter omständigheterna.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances

Omständighet

Custom is the great guide to human life

"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker"

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 lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Avarice, the spur of industry

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