David Hume Quotes About Observation

• Ninguna cantidad de observaciones de cisnes blancos puede permitir inferir que todos los cisnes son blancos, pero la observación de un solo cisne negro basta para refutar esa conclusión.

  David Hume

  Cisnes, Blanco, Negro

• 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

  Philosophy, Weakness, Elude

  David Hume (1861). “Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding ... Second edition. With additions and corrections”, p.20

• To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?

  David Hume

  Nature, Science, Past

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.128, Courier Corporation

• Incluso tras la observación de la frecuente conjunción de objetos, no tenemos motivos para extraer ninguna inferencia relativa a ningún objeto más allá de aquellos de los que hemos tenido experiencia.

  David Hume

  Experience, Reason, Inference

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated”, p.195, eKitap Projesi

• La filosofía más perfecta del tipo natural sólo evita nuestra ignorancia un poco más: como quizás la filosofía más perfecta del tipo moral o metafísico sólo sirve para descubrir porciones más grandes de ella. Así, la constatación de la ceguera y debilidad humanas es el resultado de toda filosofía, y nos sale al encuentro a cada paso, a pesar de nuestros esfuerzos por eludirla o evitarla.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Perfect

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.31

• The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.

  David Hume

  Mistake, Nice, Mind

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.71, Hackett Publishing

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