14 Quotations by Thomas Reid
- 1. A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the ...
- 2. Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
- 3. Although memory gives the most irresistible evidence of my being the identical person that did such ...
- 4. But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found i ...
- 5. Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjec ...
- 6. However much our late fatalists have boasted of this principle as of a law of nature... I am persuad ...
- 7. In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the ...
- 8. It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they ...
- 9. The idea is in the mind itself, and can have no existence but in a mind that thinks; but the remote ...
- 10. The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a ca ...
- 11. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
- 12. The vulgar allow that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind which we call ...
- 13. There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
- 14. This is the philosophical meaning of the word idea; and we may observe that this meaning of that wor ...
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