Posted on by arthursmithdigital

Commonplace Book: David Hume on Happiness

“… reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme happiness. I mean my full contentment.” David Hume, in a letter in 1767.

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Our cat, Van, (named after Vannevar Bush, of course), has the dosing right. He saunters quite fetchingly as well.

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