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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.
David Hume
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
David Hume
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
David Hume
The law always limits every power it gives.
David Hume
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
David Hume
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
David Hume
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
David Hume
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
David Hume
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume
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