Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. D
  4. David Hume
  5. Friendship

David Hume Quotes about Friendship

All David Hume Quotes Affection Age Ambition Appearance Arrogance Art Atheism Beauty Belief Character Common Sense Constitution Corruption Country Curiosity Death Desire Determination Doubt Empathy Enthusiasm Ethics Evil Experience Feelings Friendship quotes Genius Giving God Happiness Heart History Honesty Human Nature Humility Ignorance Imagination Imperfection Judgement Judgment Justice Knowledge Labor Learning Liberty Life Lying Mankind Morality Nature Office Pain Painting Passion Past Perception Philosophy Pleasure Praise Purpose Quality Reality Reflection Religion Revenge Running Science Sorrow Soul Spring Study Truth Understanding Universe Virtue War Weakness
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume
Friendship, Spring, Philosophical

Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.

David Hume
Friendship, Passion, Long
David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.161, VM eBooks

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

David Hume
Friendship, Environment, Conversation

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

David Hume
Friendship, Marriage, Strong
David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.246

You May Also Like: