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The question—Is Truth, or is the Mental Exercise in the pursuit of truth, the superior end?—this is perhaps the most curious theoretical, and certainly the most important practical, problem in the whole compass of philosophy.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic (1860)

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

The primary principle of education is the determination of the pupil to self-activity — the doing nothing for him which he is able to do for himself.

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

Strictly speaking, every one must educate himself.

Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic (1860)

The past does not interest, the present does not satisfy, the future alone is the object which engages us.

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