id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text
17689,Low-grade metaphor? Leites makes it into something more juridical.,"Reading Edmund Leites, ""Conscience, Leisure, and Learning: Locke and the Levellers."" Sociological Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Spring, 1978), p. 51.","",2010-02-02 18:15:38 UTC,,6672,"","",2010-02-02 18:16:35 UTC,"""All others have a right to be followed as far as I, i.e. as far as the evidence of what they say convinces; and of that my own understanding alone must be judge for me, and nothing else.""","The first requisite to the profiting by books, is not to judge of opinions by the authority of the writers; none have the right of dictating but God himself, and that because he is truth itself. All others have a right to be followed as far as I, i.e. as far as the evidence of what they say convinces; and of that my own understanding alone must be judge for me, and nothing else. If we made our own eyes our guides, and admitted or rejected opinions only by the evidence of reason, we should neither embrace or refuse any tenet, because we find it published by another, of what name or character soever he was."
21586,"",Reading,Court,2013-07-09 19:31:26 UTC,,4103,"","",2013-07-09 19:31:26 UTC,"""And I am persuaded, that had Reason herself been to judg of her own Interest, she wou'd have thought she receiv'd more Advantage in the main from that easy and familiar way, than from the usual stiff Adherence to a particular Opinion.""","'Twas, I must own, a very diverting one, and perhaps not the less so, for ending as abruptly as it did, and in a sort of Confusion; which almost brought all to nothing that had been advanc'd in the Discourse before. Some Particulars of this Conversation may not perhaps be so proper to commit to Paper. 'Tis enough that I put you in mind of the Conversation in general. A great many fine Schemes, it's true, were destroy'd; many grave Reasonings overturn'd: but this being done without Offence to the Partys concern'd, and with Improvement to the good Humour of the Company, it set the Appetite the keener to such Conversations. And I am persuaded, that had Reason herself been to judg of her own Interest, she wou'd have thought she receiv'd more Advantage in the main from that easy and familiar way, than from the usual stiff Adherence to a particular Opinion.
(pp. 68-9; p. 33 in Klein)
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21590,"",Reading,"",2013-07-09 19:35:29 UTC,,4103,Ruling Passions,"",2013-07-09 19:35:44 UTC,"""But according to refin'd Sense, the only well-advis'd Persons, as to this World, are errant Knaves; and they alone are thought to serve themselves, who serve their Passions, and indulge their loosest Appetites and Desires.""","The Truth is; as Notions stand now in the World, with respect to Morals; Honesty is like to gain little by Philosophy, or deep Speculations of any kind. In the main, 'tis best to stick to Common Sense, and go no further. Mens first Thoughts, in this matter, are generally better than their second: their natural Notions better than those refin'd by Study, or Consultation with Casuists. According to common Speech, as well as common Sense, Honesty is the best Policy: But according to refin'd Sense, the only well-advis'd Persons, as to this World, are errant Knaves; and they alone are thought to serve themselves, who serve their Passions, and indulge their loosest Appetites and Desires.-- Such, it seems, are the Wise, and such the Wisdom of this World!
(p. 132; p. 61 in Klein)"