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David Hume (1711-1776)

Udvalgt af Rune Engelbreth Larsen

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DAVID HUME: »Ingen fremskridt i denne verden er rene og ublandede.«

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DAVID HUME: »Fremmede og udlændinge er forsvarsløse, og derfor gøres de i alle belevne lande til genstand for den største hjælpsomhed og skænkes hæderspladsen i ethvert selskab.«

Fra OM KUNSTARTERNES OG VIDENSKABERNES OPSTÅEN OG UDVIKLING, 1742
Oversat af Morten Brænder

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DAVID HUME: »The intolerance of almost all religions, which have maintained the unity of God, is as remarkable as the contrary principle of polytheists.«

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DAVID HUME: »Good and ill are universally intermingled and confounded; happines and misery, wisdom and folly, virtue and vice. Nothing is pure and entirely of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages.«

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DAVID HUME: »No theological absurdities so glaring that they have not, sometimes, been embraced by men of the greatest and most cultivated understanding.«

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DAVID HUME: »What so pure as some of the morals, included in some theological systems? What so corrupt as some of the practices, to which these systems give rise?«

Fra THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION, 1757

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