God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. — David Hume Copy Share Image
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion — David Hume Copy Share Image
Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Where men are heated by zeal and enthusiasm, there is no degree of human testimony so strong as may not be procured… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Nay, if we should suppose, what never happens, that a popular religion were found, in which it was expressly declared, that nothing… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Man, it is true, can, by combination, surmount all his real enemies, and become master of the whole animal creation: but does… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than… — David Hume Copy Share Image
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“They all make up new species of crime and bring unhappiness in their train. When I hear a man is religious ,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.” — David Hume Copy Share
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it… — David Hume Copy Share
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation… — David Hume Copy Share
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the… — David Hume Copy Share
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share
“They all make up new species of crime and bring unhappiness in their train. When I hear a man is religious , I conclude… — David Hume Copy Share
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education… — David Hume Copy Share
“But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve… — David Hume Copy Share
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