Joseph Priestley Quotes

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.