Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYEvery man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYIn completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYToo many christians have been chargeable with… confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYWhat I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYThe wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYWill is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYIt is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYTo me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYThe greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYThis is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYWe should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYThe more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYI have procured air [oxygen] between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYIn completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYWhen we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYCould we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY