A Treatise of Human Nature

Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover any thing new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than…

All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call Impressions and Ideas. The difference…

Whatever has the air of a paradox, and is contrary to the first and most unprejudic'd notions of mankind is often greedily embrac'd by…

There are 1seven different kinds of philosophical relation, viz. resemblance, identity, relations of time and place, proportion in quantity…

In all demonstrative sciences the rules are certain and infallible; but when we apply them, our fallible and uncertain faculties are very…

As all the perceptions of the mind may be divided into impressions and ideas, so the impressions admit of another division into original…

’Tis altogether impossible to give any definition of the passions of love and hatred; and that because they produce merely a simple…

We come now to explain the direct passions, or the impressions, which arise immediately from good or evil, from pain or pleasure. Of this…

There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning, that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the…

I have already hinted, that our sense of every kind of virtue is not natural; but that there are some virtues, that produce pleasure and…

We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependence on the artifice and contrivance of…

There is nothing I wou'd more willingly lay hold of, than an opportunity of confessing my errors; and shou'd esteem such a return to truth…