An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandingwriting · 1748DirectVerified quotation — claim 01“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.” — David Hume
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A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I (Of the Understanding) and Appendixwriting · 1739; Appendix 1740DirectVerified quotation — claim 01“Objects have no discoverable connexion together; nor is it from any other principle but custom operating upon the imagination, that we can draw any inference from the appearance of one to the existence of another.” — David Hume
Of National Characters, in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary, Vol. I (Green and Grose edition) — footnote added 1753–54, revised 1777writing · 1748; footnote 1753–54, revised 1777DirectNo passage is mapped to this claim. Sources are listed for provenance; a quotation appears only when it has been verified for the specific claim.
Hume to Lord Hertford, 20 March 1766, communicating Sir George Colebrooke's proposal for a half-share of Grenadian slave plantations — with the £400 loan to John Stewart; MS at Princeton University Library, first published in Further Letters of David Hume (Edinburgh Bibliographical Society)Felix Waldmann (ed.) · letter · letter 1766; published 2014DirectNo passage is mapped to this claim. Sources are listed for provenance; a quotation appears only when it has been verified for the specific claim.