David Hume Quotes About Happiness

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  • He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

  • Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

    David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.266
  • When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

    David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing
  • Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.

    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.746, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics
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