David Hume quote about reason from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
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“ Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience. ”
 David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). copy citation

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Author David Hume
Source An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Topic reason understanding belief experience faith superstition
Date 1748
Language English
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David Hume quote about reason from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
David Hume quote about reason from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.