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Quotation from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
“I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am placed in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster”
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 7 (Conclusion of this Book) (Project Gutenberg #4705)
Hume describes the isolation and dread produced by his sceptical conclusions before narrating his recovery.
Citation: "I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am placed in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster" — David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 7 (Conclusion of this Book) (Project Gutenberg #4705). (id a-treatise-of-human-nature-q7)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
