David Hume — "The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind is of little use to us, if it do…"

"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…"

"Liberty, according to the most common acceptation of the word, means a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will."

"A passion is an original existence, or, if you will, modification of existence, and contains not any representative quality, which renders it a copy of any other existence or modification."

"There is nothing in the mind of man that is not first in the senses, or in the operations of the mind itself."

"And what surprize must we feel, when we find him a stupid mechanic, who imitated others, and copied an art, which, through a long succession of ages, after multiplied trials, mistakes, corrections, de…"