It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
DAVID HUMEno 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.
More David Hume Quotes
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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