David Hume — "terror is the primary principle of religion."

"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…"

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."

"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."

"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."

"There is a great difference betwixt a man, who is by nature diffident, and one, who is so by habit and reflection."