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“The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the fancy and sour the temper...A gloomy hair-brained enthusiast, after his death, may have a place in the calendar, but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delerious and dismal as himself.”
― David Hume

“The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.”
― David Hume, The History of England 1

“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”
― David Hume