Philosophy Quote by David Hume

“could we not conceive of a philosophy of existence linked, not solely to experiences of separation, forlornness, and profound melancholy, but also to feelings…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The melancholy with which it described an inability to live each day to the full, to take every day for what it really was,…

— Nina George

“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this…

— George Eliot

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher…

— David Hume

“Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded…

— David Hume

“It might be said that in the sublime feeling, thinking becomes impatient, despairing, disinterested in attaining the ends of freedom by means of nature.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

“Then our minds go through an entire revolution. We are no more troubled by anger and hatred, no more bitten by envy and ambition,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“A desire of desires: the melancholy.”

— Anonymous

“There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; What…

— George Gordon Byron

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans