Human beings have been created for happiness, and a principal means of obtaining it is by the exercise of the intellectual faculties, by an exertion of reason and imagination, by imitating nature and modifying her operations. And knowledge is no less necessary to supply the wants of the mind than food is to support the functions of the body.


Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry Davy, Chapter III (p. 59), John Churchill. 1858

Humphry Davy Quotes

Human beings have been created for happiness, and a principal means of obtaining it is by the exercise of the intellectual faculties, by an exertion...

Human beings have been created for happiness, and a principal means of obtaining it is by the exercise of the intellectual faculties, by an exertion...

Human beings have been created for happiness, and a principal means of obtaining it is by the exercise of the intellectual faculties, by an exertion...

Human beings have been created for happiness, and a principal means of obtaining it is by the exercise of the intellectual faculties, by an exertion...