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I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

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Thomas Reid

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages. . . in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

Doubt, Error, Errors, Ought, Philosophy, Structure
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I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it,. . . Am I pushing out the homeless?

Haves, Homeless, Looks, Pushing

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration.

Creating, Elevate, Fit, Idea, Ideas, Law

It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.

Actions, Agents, Appears, Ethics, Psychology, Virtuous

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Advancement, Ambiguity, Greater, Impediment, Speech Impediment

In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

Conclusion, Evidence, Lasts, Link, Links, May
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