“Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination.”— David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Section 4Share
“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
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”— Albert EinsteinShare