+ History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Discovery, Human nature, Principles, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Anticipation, Enjoyment, Pleasure, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Experience, Nature, Selfishness, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Nature, Philosophy, Skepticism, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ Custom is the great guide to human life. Author, August 11, 2023January 2, 2025, David Hume, Guidance, Society, Tradition, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Hume, Sensation, Thought, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty. Author, September 7, 2023January 2, 2025, David Hume, Freedom, Society, Superstition, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
+ All knowledge degenerates into probability. Author, June 16, 2023January 2, 2025, David Hume, Knowledge, Transformation, Uncertainty, 0 David Hume Philosopher · Scotland
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. Jean Genet Playwright · France
