All systems of morality, which have hitherto been advanced, are founded on the principle that morality is something real and intrinsic.
Empiricism, skepticism
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book III, Of Morals, Part I, Of virtue and vice in general, Section I, Moral distinctions not derived from reason
1740
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