The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to an issue. Sophistry has been more effectually excluded from mathematics and natural philosophy than from other sciences. In mathematics it had no place from the beginning; mathematicians having had the wisdom to define accurately the terms… — Thomas Reid Copy Share
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
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