Consummated science is positively humble.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.

I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.