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Thomas Reid Quotes
«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.»
Author: Thomas Reid
«But I have never seen any proof that there are such laws of nature, far less any proof that the strongest motive always prevails.»
Author: Thomas Reid
«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.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Thomas Reid
«And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.»
Author: Thomas Reid
«When, therefore, in common language, we speak of having an idea of anything, we mean no more by that expression, but thinking of it.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Thomas Reid
«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 a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Thomas Reid
«Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.»
Author: Thomas Reid