“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more… — 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
“So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even… — 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
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
“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
“(On belief in miracles) - "The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.” — 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
“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
