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David Hume

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.


— David Hume


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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.


— David Hume


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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.


— David Hume


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It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.


— David Hume


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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.


— David Hume


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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.


— David Hume


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


— David Hume


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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.


— David Hume


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Men often act knowingly against their interest.


— David Hume


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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.


— 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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