Jonathan Swift on belief
Jonathan Swift91 quotes“If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.”
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift
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