David Hume Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great abundance. Hence, the ideas of property become necessary in all civil society.

  David Hume

  Art, Hands, Ideas

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.411

• Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account . . . Here then I leave you to labor alone; you treat me in the same manner. The seasons change, and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.

  David Hume

  Pain, Kindness, Volunteer

• Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, World, Labor

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.153

• Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience.

  David Hume

  Intelligent, Skills, Rude

  David Hume (1854). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume”, p.159

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