"A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy."

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Source : Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.224, Georg Olms Verlag

Thomas Reid

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“... you are legally allowed to drink kid, so we figured the best thing for you is a car.”
“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying â€˜And then I shall have wings and antennae,â€™ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
“I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.”
“My hope is that one day Mike Glennon is a Hall of Famer,”
“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”

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“We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.”
“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”

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