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I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

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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.

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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.…'Tis not contrary to...more

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When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should e...more

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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

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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.

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A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that...more

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There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothes...more

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Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, ...more

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This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity,...more

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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

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Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

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I began to entertain a suspicion, that no man in this age was sufficiently qualified for such an undertaking; and that whatever any one should advance...more

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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that...more