In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Category Archive: October 18
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it’s a mode of observation.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.