“He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)Share
“Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular.”— David HumeShare
“Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals.”— David HumeShare
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”— ConfuciusShare
“Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.”— Francis BaconShare
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”— Francis BaconShare
“That which is most excellent, and is most to be desired by all happy, honest and healthy-minded men, is dignified leisure.”— CiceroShare
“The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare
“Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.”— Lord ByronShare
