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Firsts Quotes by David Hume
- All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to…
- From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from…
- In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,…
- Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected…
- The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
- To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
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