David Hume Quotes About Office

Quotes about: Office

• 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.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Passion, Office

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

• We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.

  David Hume

  Men, Office, May

  David Hume (1826). “And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion”, p.248

• The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.

  David Hume

  Heart, Men, Order

  David Hume, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1998). “Dialogues and Natural History of Religion”, p.122, Oxford University Press, USA

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