The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
More Quotes from 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.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
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
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
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume
But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature
David Hume
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