William Warburton Quotes
- Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
- Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
- Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
- Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
- Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of…
- Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the…