Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.
David HumeRead
No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
Interpretation
All benefits in life come with drawbacks or complications.
David Hume's quote reflects a philosophical understanding that every advantage or benefit gained in life is accompanied by disadvantages, complexities, or moral dilemmas. This perspective invites us to recognize the duality of experiences and the need for a balanced view on what we consider beneficial or advantageous.
In practice
Using this quote in a discussion about ethical decision-making.
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience
People who can be very good can be very bad too.
We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.
One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.
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