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Quotation from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
“Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium”
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 7 (Conclusion of this Book) (Project Gutenberg #4705)
The turn from despair to recovery: nature, not argument, relieves the sceptic's distress.
Citation: "Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium" — 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-q8)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
