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Literat, Geschichtsschreiber, Philosoph, "Treatise of Human Nature", als sein wichtigstes Werk gilt "Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals", das am 30. 11. 1751 erschien (Schottland, 1711 - 1776).

David Hume · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

David Hume wäre heute 313 Jahre, 10 Monate, 27 Tage oder 114.653 Tage alt.

Geboren am 07.05.1711 in Edinburgh
Gestorben am 25.08.1776 in Edinburgh
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• Born 1711. Died 1776. Leaving it to posterity to add the rest.

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• Custom, then, is the great guide to human life.

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• Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great abundance. Hence, the ideas of property become necessary in all civil society.

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• He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

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• Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.

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• If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

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• In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

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• It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

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• Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

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• Money . . . is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy.

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• Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

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• No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

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• The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

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• The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

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• The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

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• Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

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• What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

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• What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.

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• When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

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