The Real, Then, Is That Which, Sooner

Consider What Effects That Might Conceivably Have Practical Bearings You Conceive The Objects Of Your Conception To Have. Then, Your Conception Of Those Effects Is The Whole Of Your Conception Of The Object.

All The Evolution We Know Of Proceeds From The Vague To The Definite.

No General Description Of The Mode Of Advance Of Human Knowledge Can Be Just Which Leaves Out Of Account The Social Aspect Of Knowledge. That Is Of Its Very Essence. What A Thing Society Is! The Workingman, With His Trade Union, Knows That. Men And Women Moving In Polite Society Understand It, Still Better. But Bohemians, Like Me, Whose Work Is Done In Solitude, Are Apt To Forget That Not Only Is A Man As A Whole Little Better Than A Brute In Solitude, But Also That Everything That Bears Any Important Meaning To Him Must Receive Its Interpretation From Social Considerations.

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

...mathematics Is Distinguished From All Other Sciences Except Only Ethics, In Standing In No Need Of Ethics. Every Other Science, Even Logic, Especially In Its Early Stages, Is In Danger Of Evaporating Into Airy Nothingness, Degenerating, As The Germans Say, Into An Arachnoid Film, Spun From The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of. There Is No Such Danger For Pure Mathematics; For That Is Precisely What Mathematics Ought To Be.