Adam Ferguson Quotes

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson

Future, Design, Human

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Adam Ferguson

Few, State, Rights

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
Adam Ferguson

Men, Society, Philosophy

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
Adam Ferguson

Animal, Capacity, Climate

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
Adam Ferguson

Work, Perfect, Attention

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
Adam Ferguson

History, Human, Beginning

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 20, 1723

Died: February 22, 1816

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