Quote by Eric Weiner Download Open image ““Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.”” — Eric Weiner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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
“Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because they had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
“He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look… — Giles Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“Some people realize what they want, and only then do they find reasons for justifying it. Some find the first reason that comes to… — Saad Ireland Copy Share Image
“Somehow the Creator seems to favor those who know precisely what they want and what they do not want.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We generally have what we need. The general misperception is that we need what we want.” — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Money sometimes buys happiness. You have to break it down, though. Money is a means to an end. The problem is when you think… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“My way of thinking is completely different,” he says. “I have no such mountains to scale; basically, I find that living itself is a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Social scientists estimate that about 70 percent of our happiness stems from our relationships, both quantity and quality, with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have" ... we experience flow,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, Gross National Happiness seeks to measure a nation’s progress not by its balance sheet but rather by the happiness—or unhappiness—of its… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Bhutan is the land of la. The monosyllabic word serves as all-purpose affirmation, honorific, and verbal tic. Mostly, it is a softener, appended to… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“He tells me of one American woman, forty-five years old, who was able to conceive only after being blessed by the Holy Dildo. That’s… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
