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Few men think; yet all have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

All men have opinions, but few think.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

To be is to be perceived

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,
each his own interest.

But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding ...

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

The only things we perceive are our perceptions.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.