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Quotation from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life”
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section V, Part I (Project Gutenberg #9662)
Hume's 'sceptical solution': habit, not reason, makes experience useful by leading us to expect the future to resemble the past.
Citation: "Custom, then, is the great guide of human life" — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section V, Part I (Project Gutenberg #9662). (id an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding-q4)
Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.
