There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The greater part of mankind are naturally apt to be affirmative and dogmatical in their opinions; and while they see objects only… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. [All the other sciences] have a relation, greater or… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
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