To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
Joseph PriestleyI have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
Joseph PriestleyBut it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
Joseph PriestleyWill is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
Joseph Priestley