The greater the object, the less it can be conceived by the imagination.
Empiricism, skepticism
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Of the Understanding, Part II, Of the ideas of space and time, Section II, Of the infinite divisibility of our ideas of space and time
1739
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