For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or ... » Go

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and ... » Go

I am first affrighted and confounded with that forlorn solitude, in which I am placed in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster, who ... » Go

This deficiency in our ideas is not, indeed, perceived in common life, nor are we sensible, that in the most usual conjunctions of cause and ... » Go

There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning, that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make ... » Go

Take any action allow’d to be vicious: Willful murder, for instance. Examine it in all lights, and see if you can find that matter of ... » Go

Nothing is more usual and more natural for those who pretend to discover any thing new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than ... » Go

Were a man to abstract from every thing which he knows or has seen, he would be altogether incapable, merely from his own ideas, to ... » Go