What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Joseph Priestley

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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 PRIESTLEY

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 PRIESTLEY
To 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 PRIESTLEY

To 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 PRIESTLEY

Ego Element Weigh
In 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 PRIESTLEY

In 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 PRIESTLEY

Doubt Oneself
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Discovery
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

General Scripture
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
When 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 PRIESTLEY

When 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 PRIESTLEY
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Name
Could 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

Could 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

Mindset Production
Too 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 PRIESTLEY

Too 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 PRIESTLEY

Offense
I have procured air [oxygen] between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

I have procured air [oxygen] between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Best
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Association General Willing
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Screaming Soft
From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Distinct

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