David Hume

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. ”

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. ”

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. ”

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. ”

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ”

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive. ”

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. ”

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. ”

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. ”

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. ”