Daughter Species

Famous quotes containing the words daughter and/or species:

“Oh my daughter,
My sweetheart, daughter of my late employer, princess,
May you not be long on the way!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Thus all probable reasoning is nothing but a species of sensation. ‘Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy, When I am convinc’d of any principle, ‘tis 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 (1711–1776)