Author: David Hume

Cited by

• David Edmonds (1)
  • IN: Would You Kill The Fat Man? (2014) Non-Fiction, Philosophy, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1740), Book, UK
• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: Let It Bleed (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Avarice, the spur of industry.
    FROM: Of Civil Liberty, (1741), Essay, UK
• Charles Yu (2)
  • IN: How to Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception. A man is a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity and are in perpetual flux and movement.
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1739), Book, UK
  • IN: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception. A man is a bundle or collection of different perceptions which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity and are in perpetual flux and movement.
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1940), Book, UK
• Chris & Solomon, Matt Paul (1)
  • IN: Deck Z (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.
    FROM: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, (1751), Book, UK
• Jennie Erdal (1)
  • IN: The Missing Shade of Blue (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Suppose therefore a person to have enjoyed this sight for thirty years, and to have become perfectly well acquainted with colours of all kinds, excepting one particular shade of blue, for instance, which it never has been his fortune to meet with. Let all the different shades of that colour, except that single one, be placed before him, descending gradually from the deepest to the lightest; it is plain, that he will perceive a blank, where that shade is wanting, and will be sensible, that there is a greater distance in that place betwixt the contiguous colours, than in any other. Now I ask, whether it is possible for him, from his own imagination, to supply this deficiency, and raise up to himself the idea of that particular shade, though it had never been conveyed to him by his senses?
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1740), Book, UK
• Angela Carter (1)
  • IN: Several Perceptions (1968) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearances, pass, re-pass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1739), Book, UK
• Chris Pauls Solomon, Matt (1)
  • IN: Deck Z: The Titanic: Unsinkable. Undead (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
    FROM: An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals, (1751), Book, UK