Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
Category Archive: November 20
No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.
If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag; wash it.
I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.
For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.