Rejecting all organs of information ... but my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hy...perphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I pity the men whose natural pleasures are burthens, and who fly from joy ... as if it was really an evil in itself.... Poor unfor...tunate creature that he is! as if the causes of anguish in the heart were not enow--but he must fill up the measure, with those of caprice; and not only walk in a vain shadow,--but disquiet himself in vain too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was not sufficient for the disquiet of our minds that we disputed at the end of seventeen hundred years upon the articles of ou...r own religion, but we must likewise introduce into our quarrels those of the Chinese. This dispute, however, was not productive of any great disturbances, but it served more than any other to characterize that busy, contentious, and jarring spirit which prevails in our climates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »