And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this … - David Hume

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Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

David Hume

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

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