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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

“I cannot but think, that PHILO's principles are more probable than DEMEA's; but that those of CLEANTHES approach still nearer to the truth”

David Hume (spoken by Pamphilus)

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

Portrait of David Hume

The narrator's final verdict, modelled on the close of Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods.

Citation: "I cannot but think, that PHILO's principles are more probable than DEMEA's; but that those of CLEANTHES approach still nearer to the truth" — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12 (Project Gutenberg #4583). (id dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q13)

Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.

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