Question

“Mankind is much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in the particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature” - David Hume

What does this quote mean exactly?

Answer 1

I think this means that mankind never changes or tries to learn from their mistakes, all we do is create more chaos and instead of trying to fix this chaos, we look past it and try to grasp new knowledge of things.