Contrary Evidence Quotes by David Hume

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• All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
• Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
• Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
• Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
• Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
• I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
• God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
• Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
• The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
• All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
• To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
• Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…

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