Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.