The Essence Of Belief Is The Establishment

I Think Of Consciousness As A Bottomless Lake, Whose Waters Seem Transparent, Yet Into Which We Can Clearly See But A Little Way.but In This Water There Are Countless Objects At Different Depths; And Certain Influences Will Give Certain Kinds Of Those Objects An Upward Influence Which May Be Intense Enough And Continue Long Enough To Bring Them Into The Upper Visible Layer. After The Impulse Ceases They Commence To Sink Downwards.

Still, It Will Sometimes Strike A Scientific Man That The Philosophers Have Been Less Intent On Finding Out What The Facts Are, Than On Inquiring What Belief Is Most In Harmony With Their System.

The Entire Universe Is Perfused With Signs, If It Is Not Composed Exclusively Of Signs.

Mathematics Is Purely Hypothetical: It Produces Nothing But Conditional Propositions.

The Idea Does Not Belong To The Soul; It Is The Soul That Belongs To The Idea.