Our Perceiving Self Is Nowhere To Be

The Self Is Not So Much Linked To Its Ancestors, It Is Not So Much The Product, And Merely The Product, Of All That, But Rather, In The Strictest Sense Of The Word, The Same Thing As All That: The Strict, Direct Continuation Of It, Just As The Self Aged Fifty Is The Continuation Of The Self Aged Forty.

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.

Our Mind, By Virtue Of A Certain Finite, Limited Capability, Is By No Means Capable Of Putting A Question To Nature That Permits A Continuous Series Of Answers. The Observations, The Individual Results Of Measurements, Are The Answers Of Nature To Our Discontinuous Questioning.

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 World Is Given To Me Only Once, Not One Existing And One Perceived. Subject And Object Are Only One.