"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,……" — David Hume
"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."
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216 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…
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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