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 BaronetMetaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
Sir William Hamilton, 9th BaronetThe 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