David Hume Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

  David Hume

  Moving, Doe, Facts

• There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

  David Hume

  Beautiful, Science, Fabric

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

• It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master.

  David Hume

  Art, Nature, Men

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.131

• Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

  David Hume

  Art, Kitsch, Taste

• [A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

  David Hume

  Art, Nature, Mortification

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.197

• Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune, which we must often make to it? O sons of earth! Are ye ignorant of the value of this celestial mistress? And do ye meanly inquire for her portion, when ye observe her genuine beauty?

  David Hume

  Son, Sacrifice, Ignorant

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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