"A propensity to laugh is at the bottom of all our serious philosophical enquiries."

"The savage tribes of America, Africa, and Asia are all idolaters. Not a single exception to this rule. Insomuch, that, were a traveller to transport himself into any unknown region; if he found inhabi…"

"The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about."

"For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never c…"

"It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses."