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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

“To be a philosophical Sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian”

David Hume (spoken by Philo)

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12 (Project Gutenberg #4583)

Portrait of David Hume

Philo's ambiguous closing recommendation, which readers have taken as sincere fideism or as irony.

Citation: "To be a philosophical Sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian" — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12 (Project Gutenberg #4583). (id dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q12)

Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.

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