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A dog, that avoids fire and precipices, that shuns strangers, and caresses his master, affords us an instance of the first kind. A bird, that chooses with such care and nicety the place and materials of her nest, and sits upon her eggs for a due time, and in a suitable season, with all the precaution that a chymist is capable of in the most ...
- There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse. David Hume. Choices, Freedom Of Choice, Refuse.
- A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume. Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge.
- When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken. David Hume. Men, Stupidity, Arrogance.
- All knowledge degenerates into probability. David Hume. Knowledge, Science, Degenerates.
David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.197 Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to ...
No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor. David Hume. Political, Doubt, Add. David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.284.
VII. But here, continued Philo, in examining the ancient system of the soul of the world, there strikes me, all on a sudden, a new idea, which, if just, must go near to subvert all your reasoning, and destroy even your first inferences, on which you repose such confidence. If the universe bears a greater likeness to animal bodies and to ...
David Hume. Of all crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude, especially when it is committed against parents. David Hume. This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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Hume observes, first, that animals learn from experience, and do so by ‘inferring’ that the same effects will follow from the same causes. In this way they become acquainted with the ‘obvious properties’ of objects, and so come in time to ‘treasure up a knowledge of the nature of fire, water, earth, stones, heights, depths, &c., and ...
