April 28, 2022

GREAT QUOTES OF HUME

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF HUME


** Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. - David Hume

** He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. - David Hume

** Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. - David Hume

** Truth springs from argument amongst friends. - David Hume

** The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. - David Hume

** To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive. - David Hume

** The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. - David Hume

** That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. - David Hume

** The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. - David Hume

** Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. - David Hume