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.

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.

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.

Consummated science is positively humble.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don’t bloody tell you that!

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely.

I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'