Hume

Famous quotes containing the word hume:

    The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it.
    —David Hume (1711–1776)