What did David Hume mean by: Custom is the great guide to human life. David Hume Philosopher · Scotland Copy
Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Authenticity, Creativity, Humanity, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Humanity, Justice, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. Author, September 4, 2023January 2, 2025, David Hume, Morality, Reason, Rules, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. Author, July 11, 2023January 2, 2025, David Hume, Custom, Life, Reason, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. Author, October 22, 2023January 2, 2025, David Hume, Beauty, Mind, Perception, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Agitation, Privilege, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Contradiction, Nature, Reconciliation, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Potential, Talent, Wealth, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune! Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
