Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
Thomas Browne
Tag: Quote of the Day
08OCT2020 – Quote of the Day
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.
Thomas Browne
07OCT2020 – Quote of the Day
The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
Thomas Browne
06OCT2020 – Quote of the Day
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
David Hume
05OCT2020 – Quote of the Day
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
David Hume
04OCT2020 – Quote of the Day
From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.
David Hume
03OCT2020 – Quote of the Day
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
02OCT2020 – Quote of the Day
Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume
01OCT2020 – Quote of the Day
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable; and were they not so, would be extremely pernicious to human society. Render possessions ever so equal, men’s different degrees of art, care, and industry will immediately break that equality. Or if you check these virtues, you reduce society to the most extreme indigence; and instead of preventing want and beggary in a few, render it unavoidable to the whole community.
David Hume
30SEP2020 – Quote of the Day
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
David Hume