A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there… — 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
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
We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to… — 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
When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this… — 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
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. — Thomas Reid Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely. — Thomas Reid Copy Share
I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have… — Thomas Reid Copy Share
[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon… — Thomas Reid Copy Share
