Quotes by Hume, David

And what is the greatest number? Number one. >>

The law always limits every power it gives. >>

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. >>

Quotations about Happiness

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what >>

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperame >>

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desire >>

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David