The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so.

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it fei…

But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that thi…

:it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives:

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflectio…

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are …

I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.