David Hume
David Hume was a towering Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, renowned for his radical empiricism and skepticism regarding human nature and knowledge.
Frases de David Hume
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
Filosófico “Custom is the great guide of human life.”
Reflexão “Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
Conselho “The beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
Estético “Nature is always too strong for principle.”
Crítica “Errors in philosophy are only ridiculous and its conclusions dangerous only when they affect common life.”
Reflexão “Man is a rational animal, and as such, receives from science his proper food and nourishment.”
Filosófico “Every idea is a copy of a preceding impression.”
Base Empirista “A wise man [...] proportions his belief to the evidence.”
Máxima “The greater part of mankind is divided into two groups: those who do not think, and those who think wrongly.”
Crítica social
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