David Hume Quotes About Speculation

Quotes about: Speculation

• .. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

  David Hume

  Practice, May, Ethics

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2006). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition”, p.20, Oxford University Press

• I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.

  David Hume

  Race, Civilization, Action

  David Hume (2007). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.213, Cosimo, Inc.

• The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

  David Hume

  Vices, Morality, Virtue

  David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

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