William Fleming quotes

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence, which is common to all men. (William Fleming)
The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. View quote
William Fleming
Moral Philosophy is the Science of human duty. The knowledge of human duty implies a knowledge of human nature. To understand what man ought to do, it is necessary to know what man is. Not that the Moral Philosopher, before entering upon those inquiries which peculiarly belong to him, must go over the Science of human nature in all its extent. But it is necessary to examine those elements of human nature which have a direct bearing upon human conduct. View quote
William Fleming
Atheists are confounded with Pantheists, such as Xenophanes among the ancients, or Spinoza and Schelling among the moderns, who, instead of denying God, absorb everything into him. View quote
William Fleming
He who is certain, or presumes to say he knows, is, whether he be mistaken or in the right, a dogmatist. View quote
William Fleming
Of late years, and by the best writers, the term conscience, and the phrases "moral faculty,” "moral judgment,” "faculty of moral perception,” "moral sense,” "susceptibility of moral emotion,” have all been applied to that faculty by which we have ideas of right and wrong in reference to actions, and correspondent feelings of approbation and disapprobation. View quote
William Fleming
Pantheism, when explained to mean the absorption of the infinite in the finite, of God in nature, is atheism; and the doctrine of Spinoza has been so regarded by many. When explained to mean the absorption of nature in God, of the finite in the infinite, it amounts to an exaggeration of atheism. View quote
William Fleming