David Hume Quotes


How few are there, who, having a family, children, and relations, do not spend more on the maintenance and education of these than on their own pleasures


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David Hume, 1711-1776, Scottish Philosopher & Historian, Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature

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David Hume
  • Born: May 7, 1711
  • Died: August 25, 1776
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Philosopher

David Hume, Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as a British Empiricist.