WILLIAM HAMILTON

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.

Read much, but not many works.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

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

Consummated science is positively humble.

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

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

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.

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.

The will of the world is never the will of God.

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Consummated science is positively humble.

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

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

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

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.

Read much, but not many works.

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.

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.

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

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