Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

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Without direct impressions of a metaphysical "self" he concluded that humans have no actual conception of the self only of a bundle of sensations associated with the self. 26 April] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher historian economist and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and scepticism. Hume advocated a compatibilist theory of free will that proved extremely influential on subsequent moral philosophy.