Philosophy Quote by David Hume — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

“Stercus accidit.”

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”

“It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”

“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”

“How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?”

“Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?”

“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”