David Hume

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David Hume
David Hume

Strip away the customs and the centuries, and you find the same creature underneath every time.

David Hume
·1748·An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.