By this means all knowledge degenerates into probability; and this probability is greater or less, according to our experience of the veracity or dec… - David Hume

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

From the comparison of theism and idolatry, we may form some other observations, which will also confirm the vulgar observation that the corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

our minds can create new ideas from the components which experience has already given us, by combining together our existing ideas in new ways or by shuffling the components of our existing ideas, but we are quite unable to form any completely new ideas beyond those that have already been given to us by sensation or feeling.