Hume Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image ““Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.”” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hume Hume Said Intelligence Ought Hume Passion Philosophy Reason Ought Slave Passions
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“WE SHOULD BE DIRECTED BY REASON, OFTEN AS NOT WE ARE THE SLAVES OF APPETITE. AND THERE IS NO APPETITE SO HARD TO APPEASE… — Mark T. Barnes Copy Share Image
“Those fierce animal passions of his were his masters, not his slaves, and he was as much their victim as those he punished when… — Teresa Denys Copy Share Image
“You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and Hume and… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often,… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
