The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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But I have never seen any proof that there are such laws of nature, far less any proof that the strongest motive always prevails.Thomas Reid
The vulgar allow that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an object about which we think. But, besides these three, the philosopher conceives that there is a fourth-to wit, the idea, which is the immediate object.
Thomas Reid
However much our late fatalists have boasted of this principle as of a law of nature... I am persuaded that, whenever they shall be pleased to give us any measure of the strength of motives distinct from their prevalence, it will appear, from experience, that the strongest motive does not always prevail.
Thomas Reid
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
Thomas Reid
In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose.
Thomas Reid
This is the philosophical meaning of the word idea and we may observe that this meaning of that word is built upon a philosophical opinion for, if philosophers had not believed that there are such immediate objects of all our thoughts in the mind, they would never have used the word idea to express them.
Thomas Reid
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