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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

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

Greatness Himself Mindset Process 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

Charge Different Offense Person Religion
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Admire Lesson Myself Respect
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

Design God Intelligence Reason World
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Generation Philosophy Reality Time Wisdom
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 Ideas Perfection Willing
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Death Glory Manner
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

Equality Himself Importance Man Natural Person Right
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Color Genius Ourselves Reveal
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

Creation Discover Doubt Failure Imperfection Knowledge Oneself
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Elaborate Knowledge Philosophy
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

Conscious Ego Element Forgiveness Happiness Intense Misery Weigh
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Screaming Soft Violence
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 Fame Opinion Practice Soul
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

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

Discovery Failure Imperfection Knowledge

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.

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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.

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