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 Hume
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. - David Hume
It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. - 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
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. - David Hume
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. - David Hume
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. - David Hume
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. - David Hume
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. - David Hume
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. - David Hume
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. - David Hume
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. - David Hume
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. - David Hume
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. - David Hume