Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
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The idea is in the mind itself, and can have no existence but in a mind that thinks but the remote or mediate object may be something external, as the sun or moon it may be something past or future it may be something which never existed.Thomas Reid
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Thomas Reid
If no other test or measure of the strength of motives can be found but their prevailing, then this boasted principle will be only an identical proposition, and signify only that the strongest motive is the strongest motive, and the motive that prevails is the motive that prevails -which proves nothing.
Thomas Reid
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Thomas Reid
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 circumstances.
Thomas Reid
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