Truly, That Reason Upon Which We Plume

Another Characteristic Of Mathematical Thought Is That It Can Have No Success Where It Cannot Generalize.

The Difference Between A Pessimistic And An Optimistic Mind Is Of Such Controlling Importance In Regard To Every Intellectual Function, And Especially For The Conduct Of Life, That It Is Out Of The Question To Admit That Both Are Normal, And The Great Majority Of Mankind Are Naturally Optimistic.

Unless Man Have A Natural Bent In Accordance With Nature's, He Has No Chance Of Understanding Nature At All.

No General Description Of The Mode Of Advance Of Human Knowledge Can Be Just Which Leaves Out Of Account The Social Aspect Of Knowledge. That Is Of Its Very Essence. What A Thing Society Is! The Workingman, With His Trade Union, Knows That. Men And Women Moving In Polite Society Understand It, Still Better. But Bohemians, Like Me, Whose Work Is Done In Solitude, Are Apt To Forget That Not Only Is A Man As A Whole Little Better Than A Brute In Solitude, But Also That Everything That Bears Any Important Meaning To Him Must Receive Its Interpretation From Social Considerations.

The Percept Is The Reality. It Is Not In Propositional Form. But The Most Immediate Judgment Concerning It Is Abstract. It Is Therefore Essentially Unlike The Reality, Although It Must Be Accepted As True To That Reality. Its Truth Consists In The Fact That It Is Impossible To Correct It, And In The Fact That It Only Professes To Consider One Aspect Of The Percept.