I Know Not Whence I Came, Nor

If A Man Never Contradicts Himself, The Reason Must Be That He Virtually Never Says Anything At All.

[plato] Was The First To Envisage The Idea Of Timeless Existence And To Emphasize It-against Reason-as A Reality, More [real] Than Our Actual Experience.

I Know Not Whence I Came, Nor Whither I Go, Nor Who I Am.

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.

The World Is A Construct Of Our Sensations, Perceptions, Memories. It Is Convenient To Regard It As Existing Objectively On Its Own. But It Certainly Does Not Become Manifest By Its Mere Existence.