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 HUMEMen’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
More David Hume Quotes
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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