Words&Dirt

“I believe it may safely be establish’d for a general maxim, that no object is presented to the senses, nor image form’d in the fancy, but what is accompany’d with some emotion or movement of spirits proportion’d to it; and however custom may make us insensible of this sensation, and cause us to confound it with the object or idea, it will be easy by careful and exact experiments, to separate and distinguish them.”

––A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume, pg. 265