"Will is nothing more than a particular case……" — Joseph Priestley
"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."
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Joseph Priestley
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21 Quotes by Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley has 21 quotes on this site.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
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The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined.…
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It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the…
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he…
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are…
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider…
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of…
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no…
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More Association Quotes
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill…
— Michele Bachmann
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
— Harry Browne
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
— Vince Cable
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I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.
— Herman Cain
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Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I…
— Herman Cain
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
— George Clooney
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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than…
— Susan B. Anthony
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