Strange As It May Sound,

Many An Article That I Myself Penned Twenty Years Ago Impresses Me Now As Something Quite Foreign To Myself.

I Know Of Nothing More Terrible Than The Poor Creatures Who Have Learned Too Much. Instead Of The Sound Powerful Judgement Which Would Probably Have Grown Up If They Had Learned Nothing, Their Thoughts Creep Timidly And Hypnotically After Words, Principles And Formulae, Constantly By The Same Paths. What They Have Acquired Is A Spider's Web Of Thoughts Too Weak To Furnish Sure Supports, But Complicated Enough To Provide Confusion.

The Task Which We Have Set Ourselves Is Simply To Show Why And For What Purpose We Hold That Standpoint During Most Of Our Lives, And Why And For What Purpose We Are Provisionally Obliged To Abandon It.

Man Is Pre-eminently Endowed With The Power Of Voluntarily And Consciously Determining His Own Point Of View.

To Us Investigators, The Concept 'soul' Is Irrelevant And A Matter For Laughter. But Matter Is An Abstraction Of Exactly The Same Kind, Just As Good And Just As Bad As It Is. We Know As Much About The Soul As We Do Of Matter.