“If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects.”— David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)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
“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”— EpictetusShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
