 I am certain there is no such principle in me. But, setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with...  Psychology: Empirical and Rational - Page 474by Michael Maher - 1902 - 610 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bibliography - 1739 - 480 pages
...the reft of Mankind are any thing but a Bundle or Colletlion of different Perceptions, which fucceed each other with an inconceivable Rapidity, and are in a perpetual Flux and Movement. There is not, according to him, a fingle Power of the Soul which remains unalterably the fame. There... | |
 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...spirit as well as body ; and reduces mankind — I use his own words — to " a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with...rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." " There is properly no simplicity in the mind at one time ; nor identity in it at different times ;... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with...rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without vOL. i. x varying our perceptions. Our thought is still... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with...several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle iu an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 468 pages
...I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpctual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions.... | |
 | Victor Cousin - Psychology - 1855 - 650 pages
...: " I venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1873 - 672 pages
...Nothing .exists to us but our thoughts and feelings. We are " nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement." C. Materialism in France during the Eighteenth Century. The sensational... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with...rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with...rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable... | |
 | William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. . . . The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
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