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.
David HumeA philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.
Anne FadimanTag: philosophy hume
Stercus accidit.
David HumeTag: philosophy hume empiricism shit-happens
To question reason is to trust it.
Mitch StokesTag: reason philosophy hume kant shot-of-faith-to-the-head
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