Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what has a reference to sentiment or feeling, can have no other standard than the sentiment or feeling itself.
Empiricism, skepticism
Of the Standard of Taste (Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary)
1757
Found in 1 providers: grok
Cross Reference
1 source
"The fact is, that the greatest part of our reasonings, concerning matters of fact, are founded on the relation of cause and effect."
Strange & Unusual"Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular."
Humorous"The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover more ope…"
Shocking"All our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, that it is impossible for us to think of anything, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal …"
Humorous"All knowledge degenerates into probability."
Strange & UnusualPremium quality, printed on demand. Ships worldwide.
Don't see what you're looking for? Email us for custom products
