4 David Hume Quotes on Character

David Hume quotes on character

3. With regard to politics and the character of princes and great men, I think I am very moderate. My views of things are more conformable to Whig principles; my representation of persons to Tory prejudices. Nothing can so much prove that men commonly regard more persons than things, as to find that I am commonly numbered among the Tories.

74. Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

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

80. Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers. ~ Bertrand Russell