Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.David Hume
“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.”
“Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.”
— DAVID HUME
Philosopher · 1711 – 1776
David Hume was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian and economist, best known for A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. His scepticism about causation, miracles and the self profoundly influenced Western philosophy.
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