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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.

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
Vivid Imagination, Able, Belief
David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.39, Oxford University Press

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

David Hume
Looks, Belief, Opinion
David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.244, Delphi Classics

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

David Hume
Ties, May, Belief

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