David Hume Quotes

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

The basis of religion is independent of science. Theology, not religion, is the antithesis to science

Religion was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were taught in all the other classes.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.