David Hume : (4) " 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 " I have written on all sorts of subjects… yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. " - David Hume " Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. " - David Hume " The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. " - David Hume