Happiness Quotes by David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

— David Hume

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

— David Hume

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

— David Hume

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

— David Hume

“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.”

— David Hume

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

— David Hume

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

— David Hume

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

— David Hume

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift…

— David Hume

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances

— David Hume

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

— David Hume

“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.”

— David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and…

— David Hume

We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be…

— David Hume

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am…

— David Hume

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,…

— David Hume

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different…

— David Hume

“If the process fails at any point, the idea in question lacks cognitive content. When carried through successfully, however, it yields a…

— David Hume

A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as…

— David Hume