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“Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.”

Ifs Needs Giving Should Two Wisdom Walks Philosophical Lays Towers Beam Apprehension Firmness Two Towers Width

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”

“The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.”

Ifs Giving Mind Values Philosophical Lays Physics Chiefs

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.”

Men Life Force Philosophical Lays Assault Resisting Right To Bear Arms Bearing Arms

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.”

People Thinking Way Mind May Said Use Speak Attention Seeing Judgment Philosophical Lays Satisfied Reviews Fatigue

Book:The Works of Joseph Butler ... To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Joseph Butler ... To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author

“The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature and lets them run like clockwork, indifferent to the fate of the people subject to them.”

People Firsts Ideas Running Law Religion Universe Causes Fate Subjects Philosophical Lays Definitions Indifferent Laws Of Nature Clockwork Deism

Author:Elizabeth S. Anderson