David Hume

• ...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.
• A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
• Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
• But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
• Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
• It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
• Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.