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Age of Enlightenment16 quotes
Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities. — David Hume · 1739Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. — David Hume · 1748In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty. — David Hume · 1741The heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions. — David Hume · 1741Reason 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 · 1739The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. — David Hume · 1776All 16 quotes →