Thomas Reid Quotes

Biography: Thomas Reid is known for founding the Scottish School of Common Sense ... more Biography: Thomas Reid is known for founding the Scottish School of Common Sense philosophy. Born in 1710 in Scotland, he was a major 18th-century philosopher. Reid's work focused on directly experiencing the world through common sense, challenging contemporary empirical and skeptical theories. His influential ideas remain significant in modern philosophical thought. less

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link""It is absurd to conceive that any being can produce another being, when it is not in its power to hinder it""Our senses, as they are the original inlets of all our knowledge, so they are the sources of all the errors and mistakes that we fall into in the pursuit of knowledge""Nothing seems more evident to me than that the powers of the mind are the varied actions of the brain""Philosophy is the light of the soul and should be pursued by all rational beings""The mind acts upon the body, and the body upon the mind, by laws unknown to us""Every operation of the mind is accompanied with a corresponding modification of the brain""There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words""The rules of common sense are the rules of truth"

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