Read much, but not many works.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.