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Quotation from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
“The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations”
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 6 (Of Personal Identity) (Project Gutenberg #4705)
Hume's image for the succession of perceptions, which he immediately warns must not suggest a stage or audience behind the show.
Citation: "The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations" — 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-q6)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
