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David Hume quotes on experience

2 verified English passages where David Hume’ s thought meets questions of experience.

David Hume on experience

David Hume (1711–1776) approaches experience within Empiricism. Causal necessity is a learned expectation, the self is a bundle of perceptions, and moral approval rests in sentiment. Systematically, the teaching links causation, skepticism, sentiment into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets experience most directly—useful for searches such as “david hume quotes on experience.”

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  1. For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other.
  2. Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.