David Hume Quotes
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
Citations
Hume, David. The Natural History of Religion. Edited by A. Wayne Colver, Clarendon Press, 1976, p. 39.
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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.