David Hume quotation (Zitat)

“All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS. The difference betwixt these consists in the degree of force and liveliness with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness. Those perceptions, which enter with most force and violence, we may name impressions; and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul. By ideas I mean the faint images of these in thinking and reasoning; …”

“Ideas and impressions appear always to correspond to each other. This circumstance seems remarkable, and engages my attention a moment.

Upon a more accurate survey I find I have been carried away too far by the first appearance, and that I must make use of the distinction of perceptions into simple and complex, to limit this general decision, that all our ideas and impressions are resembling. I observe, that many of our complex ideas never had impressions never are exactly copied in ideas. ….”  (1)

(1) David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Dover Philosophical Classics, Book I, Part I, Section I, Of the origin of our Ideas, page 1-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-486-43250-2, ISBN-10:0-486-43250-5

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