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Quotation from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
“I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception”
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 6 (Of Personal Identity) (Project Gutenberg #4705)
Hume's introspective search for a simple, continuing self, which finds only particular perceptions.
Citation: "I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception" — David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 6 (Of Personal Identity) (Project Gutenberg #4705). (id a-treatise-of-human-nature-q4)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
