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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"It is an infallible maxim, that no man was ever attached to the present order of things, who did not hope to profit by it."
Humorous"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."
Shocking"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"It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses."
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