J. Martineau

Cited as J. Martineau. — 7 quotations

Dynamic

Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine.

Enhunger

Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life.

Facultative

In short, there is no facultative plurality in the mind; it is a single organ of true judgment for all purposes, cognitive or practical.

First-hand

One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind.

Infinite

Not till the weight is heaved from off the air, and the thunders roll down the horizon, will the serene light of God flow upon us, and the blue infinite embrace us again.

Punctual

These sharp strokes [of a pendulum], with their inexorably steady intersections, so agree with our successive thoughts that they seem like the punctual stops counting off our very souls into the past.

Scepsis

Among their products were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of Kant.