I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
DAVID HUMEI weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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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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If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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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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