Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Collins

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Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Anthony Collins was an English philosopher and essayist, notable for being one of the early proponents of Deism in Great Britain.

English - Philosopher | June 21, 1676 - December 13, 1729

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It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Anthony Collins

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Anthony Collins

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

Anthony Collins

We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.

Anthony Collins

Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.

Anthony Collins

Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.

Anthony Collins

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

Anthony Collins

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Collins

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