He tells us that we cannot be sure that any cause will lead to any effect, or that the sun will rise tomorrow, or that we have any consistent personal identity. We feel that there are real, coherent causes and identities, but those are just feelings, born of habit and association of ideas. The twentieth-century philosopher and broadcaster Bryan Magee summed him up well by saying, “What Hume characteristically tells you when you go to him with a problem is: ‘It’s worse than you think.’
