Q0250

David Hume

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English

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other.
Thinker David Hume
School Skepticism
Source Treatise I.4.6
Theme Self
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Treatise I.4.6, within the tradition of Skepticism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of self, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In David Hume's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

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Chicago: David Hume. “For my part, when I enter most intimately….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0250.

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  1. 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.
  2. A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
  3. Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals.
  4. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
  5. Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

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  1. A friend is another self.
  2. A person's character is their destiny.
  3. I searched for myself.
  4. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
  5. Claim yourself for yourself.

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