Whence Come I And Whither Go I?

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.

If We Were Bees, Ants, Or Lacedaemonian| Warriors, To Whom Personal Fear Does Not Exist And Cowardice Is The Most Shameful Thing In The World, Warring Would Go On Forever. But Luckily We Are Only Men — And Cowards.

No Self Is Of Itself Alone. It Has A Long Chain Of Intellectual Ancestors. The "i" Is Chained To Ancestry By Many Factors ... This Is Not Mere Allegory, But An Eternal Memory.

The Scientist Only Imposes Two Things, Namely Truth And Sincerity, Imposes Them Upon Himself And Upon Other Scientists.

The Material World Has Only Been Constructed At The Price Of Taking The Self, That Is, Mind, Out Of It, Removing It; Mind Is Not Part Of It...