Freedom Quote by David Hume

Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,on the contrary, renders men tame…

— David Hume

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour…

— Thomas Chalmers

Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice.

— Anonymous

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a…

— David Hume

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue,…

— Blaise Pascal

In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his…

— Cesare Pavese

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that…

— James Russell Lowell