David Hume — "Liberty, according to the most common acceptation of the word, means a power of …"

"Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what has a reference to sentiment or feeling, can have no other standard than the sentiment or fee…"

"Our judgements concerning moral distinctions are derived from the moral sentiment, and not from reason."

"All belief of matter of fact or real existence is derived merely from some object present to the memory or senses, and a customary conjunction betwixt that and some other object."

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

"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."