A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such ….

In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if we were in his circumstances a….

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same cir….

[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 any other ….

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely..

The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into ….

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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 wor….

It is natural to men to judge of things less known, by some similitude they observe, or think they observe, between them and things more familiar or ….

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their ….

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 that which i….

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree..

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects and partie….

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an a….

In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the st….

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 ….

Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of….

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. Sophistr….

Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact, and partly by conje….

The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be fo….

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned..