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David Hume  Quotes
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 Hume

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So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere...

—David Hume

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ContraryExperienceIrrational
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There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality....

—David Hume

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PhilosophyReasonReligion
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When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the...

—David Hume

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MiraclesReligionScience
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

—David Hume

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ManPhilosopher
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If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the world or from books, he may be regarded as a prodigy;...

—David Hume

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Shakespeare
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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...

—David Hume

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ReligionSkepticism
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Should a traveler, returning from a far country, bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted, men who were entirely divested of avarice, ambition, or revenge, who...

—David Hume

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Human-NaturePhilosophy
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While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy, so agreeable to the natural vanity and curiosity...

—David Hume

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Physics
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

—David Hume

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BeliefChristianityReligion
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds … Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of...

—David Hume

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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. ‘Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you,...

—David Hume

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Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the...

—David Hume

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MiraclesReasonReligion
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If my life be not my own, it were criminal for me to put it in danger, as well as to dispose of it; nor could one man deserve the appellation of hero, whom glory...

—David Hume

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LifeSuicide
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

—David Hume

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DeathEnduranceInspirational
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[I]f subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable;

—David Hume

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Resistance
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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was...

—David Hume

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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.

—David Hume

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Pride
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

—David Hume

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ErrorsPhilosophyReligion
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case against a miracle is—just because it is a miracle—as complete as any argument...

—David Hume

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AtheismChristianityEmpiricism
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[I]t must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence: and in those contests, which so often take place between the one...

—David Hume

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Liberty
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

—David Hume

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EmotionsPhilosophyReason
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

—David Hume

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Politics
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[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;

—David Hume

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Revolution
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Stercus accidit.

—David Hume

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Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before...

—David Hume

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BeliefEnquiryEvidence
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[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)

—David Hume

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Origin-Of-LifePhilosophyPlanets
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In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

—David Hume

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AssuranceBeliefCertainty
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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...

—David Hume

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Atheism
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A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

—David Hume

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Cause-And-EffectReason
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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.

—David Hume

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BeautyBeholderEvil
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The late Mr. David Hume, in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason; and adds, that reason can only make a machine, as a clock or a...

—David Hume

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This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame...

—David Hume

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