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.
DAVID HUME
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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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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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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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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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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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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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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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 knowledge degenerates into probability.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates 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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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