Far From Being Antecedent Principles

The History Of Philosophy Is To A Great Extent That Of A Certain Clash Of Human Temperaments.

I Am, Myself, A Very Poor Visualizer And Find That I Can Seldom Call To Mind Even A Single Letter Of The Alphabet In Purely Retinal Terms. I Must Trace The Letter By Running My Mental Eye Over Its Contour In Order That The Image Of It Shall Leave Any Distinctness At All.

For The Moment, What We Attend To Is Reality.

In The Practical Use Of Our Intellect, Forgetting Is As Important As Remembering.

As There Is No Worse Lie Than A Truth Misunderstood By Those Who Hear It, So Reasonable Arguments, Challenges To Magnanimity, And Appeals To Sympathy Or Justice, Are Folly When We Are Dealing With Human Crocodiles And Boa-constrictors.