Tuesday Philosophy

Today's words of wisdom come from the great Scottish skeptic, David Hume, one of the key figures of the Enlightenment:

"The mind is a kind of theater, where several
perceptions successively make their appearance--
pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an
infinite variety of postures and situations.
There is properly no simplicity in it at one
time, nor identity in different, whatever
natural propension we may have to
imagine that simplicity and identity..."