It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
Empiricism, skepticism
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 2, Part 3, Section 3
1739-1740
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"The life of man is a perpetual flux of motion. All his thoughts, sentiments, and actions are in a continual succession, and never remain for any considerable time in the same state."
Shocking"Much human thought... is based on “a reasoning that is not in itself different from, nor founded on different principles, from that which appears” in animals."
Controversial"All our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, that it is impossible for us to think of anything, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal …"
Humorous"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
Humorous"There are no such things as moral demonstrations."
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