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Quotation from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
“they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement”
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 6 (Of Personal Identity) (Project Gutenberg #4705)
The classic statement of the bundle theory of the self, applied to 'the rest of mankind' after setting aside metaphysicians who claim to perceive a simple self.
Citation: "they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement" — 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-q5)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
