Quotes by Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet - Page 1

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Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
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Consummated science is positively humble.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Science
Humble
Positively
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Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Truth
Shining
Torches
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Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Doubt
Good Sense
Sober
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A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Denied
Judgment
One Thing
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An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Agents
Instinct
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Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Metaphysics
Mind
Taken
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The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Ignorance
Life Is
Two
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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.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Law
Logic
Subjects
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In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Health
Body
Together
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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.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Distinction
Practice
Theory
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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.
Sir William Hamilton, 9Th Baronet / Metaphysician
Goal
Ignorance
Two
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