There Is No History Of Mankind, There

Now This Principle Of Induction Cannot Be A Purely Logical Truth Like A Tautology Or An Analytic Statement. . . .

Psychologism Is, I Believe, Correct Only In So Far As It Insists Upon What May Be Called 'methodological Individualism' As Opposed To 'methodological Collectivism'; It Rightly Insists That The 'behaviour' And The 'actions' Of Collectives, Such As States Or Social Groups, Must Be Reduced To The Behaviour And To The Actions Of Human Individuals. But The Belief That The Choice Of Such An Individualist Method Implies The Choice Of A Psychological Method Is Mistaken.

I Don't Know Whether God Exists Or Not. ... Some Forms Of Atheism Are Arrogant And Ignorant And Should Be Rejected, But Agnosticism—to Admit That We Don't Know And To Search—is All Right. ... When I Look At What I Call The Gift Of Life, I Feel A Gratitude Which Is In Tune With Some Religious Ideas Of God. However, The Moment I Even Speak Of It, I Am Embarrassed That I May Do Something Wrong To God In Talking About God.

For Myself, I Am Interested In Science And In Philosophy Only Because I Want To Learn Something About The Riddle Of The World In Which We Live, And The Riddle Of Man's Knowledge Of That World. And I Believe That Only A Revival Of Interest In These Riddles Can Save The Sciences And Philosophy From An Obscurantist Faith In The Expert's Special Skill And In His Personal Knowledge And Authority.

The Conspiracy Theory Of Society... Comes From Abandoning God And Then Asking: "who Is In His Place"