Joseph Priestley quotes

" It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. " # Argument

" Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. " # Advertising # Love # Age and Aging

" As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the scheme of Christianity, greatly disfiguring and depraving it; I shall show, ... that it has no countenance whatever in reason, or the Scriptures; and, therefore, that the whole doctrine of atonement, with every modification of it, has been a departure from the primitive and genuine doctrine of Christianity. " # War # Christians and Christianity # Love

" Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. " # Obesity # Work # Mind

" I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. " # Books - Reading # Love # Hope

" Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. " # Politicians and Politics # War # Society

" The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. " # Critics and Criticism # Writers and Writing # Parasites

" The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. " # Communication # Arts and Artists # Communism and Socialism

" This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names. " # Impossibility # Love # Life and Living

" To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton. " # Happiness # Love # Anecdotes