To Understand Is To Invent.

If A Baby Really Has No Awareness Of Himself And Is Totally Thing-directed And At The Same Time All His States Of Mind Are Projected Onto Things, Our Second Paradox Makes Sense: On The One Hand, Thought In Babies Can Be Viewed As Pure Accommodation Or Exploratory Movements, But On The Other This Very Same Thought Is Only One, Long, Completely Autistic Waking Dream.

The Child Who Defines A Lie As Being A "naughty Word" Knows Perfectly Well That Lying Consists In Not Speaking The Truth. He Is Not, Therefore, Mistaking One Thing For Another, He Is Simply Identifying Them One With Another By What Seems To Us A Quaint Extension Of The Word "lie".

In Other Words, Knowledge Of The External World Begins With An Immediate Utilisation Of Things, Whereas Knowledge Of Self Is Stopped By This Purely Practical And Utilitarian Contact.

I Am Convinced That There Is No Sort Of Boundary Between The Living And The Mental Or Between The Biological And The Psychological. From The Moment An Organism Takes Account Of A Previous Experience And Adapts To A New Situation, That Very Much Resembles Psychology.

The Need To Speak The Truth And Even To Seek It For Oneself Is Only Conceivable In So Far As The Individual Thinks And Acts As One Of A Society, And Not Of Any Society (for It Is Just The Constraining Relations Between Superior And Inferior That Often Drive The Latter To Prevarication) But Of A Society Founded On Reciprocity And Mutual Respect, And Therefore On Cooperation.