What did David Hume mean by: Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. - David Hume Philosopher · Scotland Copy
+ The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Hume, Peace, Philosophical, War, 0 - David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Hume, Anticipation, Pleasure, 0 - David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Hume, Beauty, Moral, Philosophical, 0 - David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Hume, Criticism, Taste, 0 - David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty. Feraz Zeid, September 7, 2023December 24, 2023, David Hume, Atheism, Enemy, Religion, 0 - David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ Self-denial is a monkish virtue. Feraz Zeid, July 15, 2023December 12, 2023, David Hume, Denial, Self, Virtue, 0 - David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Hume, Attainment, End, Human, 0 - David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once. Feraz Zeid, August 11, 2023December 12, 2023, David Hume, Liberty, Lost, 0 - David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
When I’m carried away, isn’t it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth? - Jean Racine Playwright · France
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
