23 ordspråk av Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Priestley föddes den March 13th 1733 och dog den 6 February 1804
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 This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names

 To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

 To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

 We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

 We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

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

 When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

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


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