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David Hume

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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.


— David Hume


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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.


— David Hume


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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.


— David Hume


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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.


— David Hume


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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.


— David Hume


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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.


— David Hume


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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.


— David Hume


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I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.


— David Hume


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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.


— 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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