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Ian O’Shaughnessy

Quotes · David Hume

“The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgement appear the only result of our must accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a-quarreling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.”

– David Hume, The Natural History of Religions, 1757

From volume I of the file · Book · 18th century

Themes: faith & God · philosophy · reason & truth