“(On belief in miracles) - "The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
“What age or period of life is the most addicted to superstition? The weakest and most timid. What sex? The same answer… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are… — 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
“It is impious, says the modern European superstition, to put a period to our own life, and thereby rebel against our creator:… — 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
“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
“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
“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
