David Hume
Scottish · 1711–1776
Empiricist philosopher and historian whose radical skepticism about causation, induction, and the self profoundly shaped modern epistemology and awoke Kant from his "dogmatic slumber."
Wikipedia ↗“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.”
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A Treatise of Human Nature ↗ (1739)
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
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A Treatise of Human Nature ↗ (1739)
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
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“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.”
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“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
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Of the Standard of Taste ↗ (1757)