"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees……" — David Hume

"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions."

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216 Quotes by David Hume

David Hume has 216 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most…
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with…
Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with…
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by…
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us…
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that…

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More Agreeable Quotes

This quote is filed under Agreeable Quotes, one of 227 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great… — Jane Austen
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and… — Jane Austen
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — Joseph Addison
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body.… — Winston Churchill
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. — Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. — Winston Churchill
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Thomas Aquinas
The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable… — Seneca the Younger
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more… — Joseph Addison

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