The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
David HumeAs every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
David HumeTags: religion skepticism
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
David HumeTags: reason philosophy emotions
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
David HumeEpicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
David HumeTags: atheism
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
David HumeTags: perception beauty evil god religion beholder religious-meaning
...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.
David HumeGenerally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David HumeTags: philosophy religion errors
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
David HumeIf we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
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