no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
DAVID HUMEA purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
More David Hume Quotes
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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