David Hume Quotes About Life
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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
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If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.
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While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.
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The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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