Acknowledge Quote by David Hume

“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill”

— George Eliot

“And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of…

— Anton Chekhov

“The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes no active…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void…

— Jonathan Swift

“what I am after in this dispute is to me something serious, necessary, and indeed eternal, something of such a kind and such importance…

— Martin Luther

“Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance of his actions which were too contrary…

— Leo Tolstoy

“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes…

— Bertrand Russell

Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal…

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears…

— Lev Shestov

“In order to cease our striving, we must transfer our trust away from our own abilities, our own accomplishments, our own strength, and place…

— Swindoll Charles R

It seems certain, that though a man, in a flush of humour, after intense reflection on the many contradictions and imperfections of human reason,…

— David Hume