Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Thomas Reid
Born: April 26, 1710
Died: October 7, 1796 (aged 86)
Bio: Thomas Reid was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher, a contemporary of David Hume as well as "Hume's earliest and fiercest critic.
Known for:
- Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
- An Inquiry into the Human Mind
- Essays on the active powers of man
- The Works of Thomas Reid