lives. He states, "Any sequence of mental action which has been frequently repeated tends to perpetuate itself; so that we find ourselves automatically prompted to think, feel, or do what we have been before accustomed to think, feel, or do, under like circumstances, without any consciously formed purpose, or anticipated of result."

Habit played an important role in the phenomenology of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. For Merleau-Ponty,