Political Quotes

Harold J. Laski: “Yet Hume is full of flashes of deep wisdom, and it would be an avoidance of justice not to note the extent of the…”

On the record
Yet Hume is full of flashes of deep wisdom, and it would be an avoidance of justice not to note the extent of the spasmodic insight that he had.
Said by
Harold J. Laski

Editor's note · Context

Laski acknowledges Hume's insightful contributions despite his limitations.

Share

More from Harold J. Laski

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

gutenberg.org

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

gutenberg.org

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

gutenberg.org

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation