If A Man Never Contradicts Himself, The

I Don't Like It, And I'm Sorry I Ever Had Anything To Do With It.

The Material World Has Only Been Constructed At The Price Of Taking The Self, That Is, Mind, Out Of It, Removing It; Mind Is Not Part Of It...

Consciousness Is Never Experienced In The Plural, Only In The Singular. Not Only Has None Of Us Ever Experienced More Than One Consciousness, But There Is Also No Trace Of Circumstantial Evidence Of This Ever Happening Anywhere In The World. If I Say That There Cannot Be More Than One Consciousness In The Same Mind, This Seems A Blunt Tautology - We Are Quite Unable To Imagine The Contrary...

For A Solitary Animal Egoism Is A Virtue That Tends To Preserve And Improve The Species: In Any Kind Of Community It Becomes A Destructive Vice.

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.