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A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

Consummated science is positively humble.

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.