A Person Does What He Does Because

What We Call Progress Consists In Coordinating Ideas With Realities.

I Want To Make Clear Only That Words Are Not The Things Spoken About, And That There Is No Such Thing As An Object In Absolute Isolation.

If We, Who Live Outside Asylums, Act As If We Lived In A Fictitious World- That Is To Say, If We Are Consistent With Our Beliefs- We Cannot Adjust Ourselves To Actual Conditions, And So Fall Into Many Avoidable Semantic Difficulties. But The So-called Normal Person Practically Never Abides By His Beliefs, And When His Beliefs Are Building For Him A Fictitious World, He Saves His Neck By Not Abiding By Them. A So-called "insane" Person Acts Upon His Beliefs, And So Cannot Adjust Himself To A World Which Is Quite Different From His Fancy.

It Seems Evident That Everything Which Exists In Nature, Is Natural, No Matter How Simple Or Complicated A Phenomenon It Is; And On No Occasion Can The So-called 'supernatural' Be Anything Else Than A Completely Natural Law, Though It May, At The Moment, Be Above And Beyond The Present Understanding.

It Is Amusing To Discover, In The Twentieth Century, That The Quarrels Between Two Lovers, Two Mathematicians, Two Nations, Two Economic Systems, Usually Assumed Insoluble In A Finite Period Should Exhibit One Mechanism, The Semantic Mechanism Of Identification - The Discovery Of Which Makes Universal Agreement Possible, In Mathematics And In Life.