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Quotes by David Hume

Scottish historian & philosopher (1711 - 1776)

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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

Custom is the great guide of human life.

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.

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

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.