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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Sir W. Hamilton

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

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

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.

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.

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

Read much, but not many works.

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.