“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. — 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
“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
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
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
If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not… — 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
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 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
