davidhume

hero

- wrote at the end of a ridiculously long philosophy book, the treatise on human nature, the culmination of his careers thought until that point...

"I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly depraved of the use of every member and faculty.  Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras.  I dine, play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther..."

villain

- awoke Kant from his dogmatic slumbers, would the world be better if that hadnt happened?

>>> hume on causation...