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

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

David Hume
Happiness, Feelings, Three
David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.266

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Hume
Feelings, Vices, Principles
David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2006). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition”, p.5, Oxford University Press

When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.

David Hume
Ideas, Giving, Feelings
David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.87, 谷月社

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