Explanation is where the mind rests
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
All knowledge degenerates into probability
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books
Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
If you claim to have understood a reality, you must only do so after putting that reality into practice in your own life.
The death of dogma is the birth of morality
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in
There is a voice that doesn't use words, Listen
Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice
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