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
DAVID HUMEno 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.
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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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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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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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