“ the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it. ”
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). copy citation
| Author | David Hume |
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| Source | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
| Topic | philosophy weakness humanity |
| Date | 1748 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9662/9662-h/9662-h.htm |
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“The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
27. Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect, or lead us into the knowledge of ultimate causes, by all that accuracy of reasoning for which it is so justly celebrated.” source
27. Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect, or lead us into the knowledge of ultimate causes, by all that accuracy of reasoning for which it is so justly celebrated.” source
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