Quote#Happiness
For want of clearer knowledge of this subject, we are obliged to…
Quote byJoseph Priestley · 1733–1804
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion (1772–1774), Vol. I : Part I : The Being and Attributes of God, § 1 : Of the existence of God, and those attributes which art deduced from his being considered as uncaused himself, and the cause of every thing else (1772).
English (original)
For want of clearer knowledge of this subject, we are obliged to content ourselves with terms that convey only negative ideas, and to say that God is a being untreated or uncaused; and this is all that we mean when we sometimes say that he is self existent.
— Joseph Priestley
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