Hume

Famous quotes containing the word hume:

“Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)