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 HUMEHeaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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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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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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