I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
DAVID HUME
I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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