David Hume Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

  David Hume

  Life, Science, Men

  David Hume, Richard H. Popkin (1998). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)”, p.100, Hackett Publishing

• The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

  David Hume

  Life, Learning, Way

• It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

  David Hume

  Life, Reason, Guides

  "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding". Book by David Hume, 1758.

• While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

  David Hume

  Life, Gone, Life Is

  David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.122

• If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

  David Hume

  Life, Death, Reflection

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.683, Delphi Classics

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