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Humans Quotes by David Hume
- All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still…
- I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a…
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
- Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the…
- A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full…
- No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and…
- There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or…
- But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper…
- In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,…
- But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;…
- And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,…
- The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
- Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
- The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
- Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.
- There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric…
- Truth is disputable, not human taste.
- Custom is the great guide to human life.
- Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
- There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find…
- As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning…
- We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our…
- It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
- All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of…
- Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong