Quotes About Reflection

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.

We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

Be a philosopher, but amid all your philosophy be still a man.

No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

When we think back on our past sensations and feelings, our thought is a faithful mirror that copies its objects truly; but it does so in colours that are fainter and more washed-out than those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

Il est difficile de parler de soi longtemps sans vanité.

Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity. - My Own Life

The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.

When I look abroad, I foresee on every side dispute, contradiction, anger, calummy, and detraction, When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance (Hume, 1739, p.312)

I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am plac'd in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster, who not being able to mingle and unite in society, has been expell'd all human commerce, and left utterly abandon'd and disconsolate (Hume, 1739, p. 312).

I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am plac'd in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster, who not being able to mingle and unite in society, has been expell'd all human commerce, and left utterly abandon'd and disconsolate (Hume, 1739, p. 311-312).

Bleib' nüchtern und vergiss' nicht, skeptisch zu sein!

Tis not solely in poerty and music, we must follow low our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy (Hume, 1739, p.153).

PAMPHILUS TO HERMIPPUS It has

Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow low our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy (Hume, 1739, p. 153).

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.