An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

What carries you from past to future is habit. After seeing flame and heat together again and again, the sight of flame alone makes you expect heat. Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Enjoy The Road is a library of ideas from books that lasted, in plain words. A new one every day, free to read.

Next idea from this book
All 30 ideas from this book
For the little ones

The Sunday email

One email each Sunday morning: the week’s seven ideas, a question to think about, and a link to a story to read to a child.

Get the Sunday email