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.
Empiricism, skepticism
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Of the Passions, Part III, Of the will and direct passions, Section I, Of liberty and necessity
1739
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