Logo
Quote by David Hume
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. – David Hume

Other quotes by David Hume

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. – David Hume

Category:
Death
Author
David Hume
Read Quote

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. – David Hume

Category:
Religion
Author
David Hume
Read Quote

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. – David Hume

Category:
good
Author
David Hume
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. – Rupert Sheldrake

Category:
Nature

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. – Author unknown, commonly attributed to Martin Luther

Category:
Nature

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Nature

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. – William Ralph Inge

Category:
Humankind

Its rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether its Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends. – Stephen Fry

Category:
Men

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. – Minna Antrim

Category:
Greed

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. – Calvin Coolidge

Category:
power