It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Men’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
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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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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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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
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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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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.
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