David Hume Quotes
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
Citations
Hume, David. Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul. M. Smith, 1783, p. 19.
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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.