As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
DAVID HUMEHe is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
More David Hume Quotes
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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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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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
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