David Hume quote about belief from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - I say, then, that 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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“ I say, then, that 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, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). copy citation

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Author David Hume
Source An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Topic belief imagination object conception
Date 1748
Language English
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David Hume quote about belief from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - I say, then, that 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 quote about belief from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - I say, then, that 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.