Share this sentence
— David Hume"The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life."
Related information
Discover more quotes
Previous Quote
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next Quote
At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.
— Woodrow Wilson
Loading recommended content...