David Hume quote about cause from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - For surely, if there be any relation among objects which it imports to us to know perfectly, it is that of cause and effect.
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For surely, if there be any relation among objects which it imports to us to know perfectly, it is that of cause and effect.
 David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748). copy citation

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“No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.
60. And what stronger instance can be produced of the surprising ignorance and weakness of the understanding than the present? For surely, if there be any relation among objects which it imports to us to know perfectly, it is that of cause and effect. On this are founded all our reasonings concerning matter of fact or existence. By means of it alone we attain any assurance concerning objects which are removed from the present testimony of our memory and senses.” source

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