"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."
"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it."
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Source: David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.175, 谷月社
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