Wars Are Not Fought For Territory, But

One Of The Tests Of A Theory Is That, Once Grasped, It Appears Self-evident.

Man's Destiny Was No Longer Determined From 'above' By A Super-human Wisdom And Will, But From 'below' By The Sub-human Agencies Of Glands, Genes, Atoms, Or Waves Of Probability. ...they Could Determine His Fate, But Could Provide Him With No Moral Guidance, No Values And Meaning. A Puppet Of The Gods Is A Tragic Figure, A Puppet Suspended On His Chromosomes Is Merely Grotesque.

From The Psychological Point Of View, The Self-asserting Emotions, Derived From Emergency Reactions, Involve A Narrowing Of Consciousness; The Participatory Emotions An Expansion Of Consciousness By Identificatory Processes Of Various Kinds.

As Modern Physics Started With The Newtonian Revolution, So Modern Philosophy Starts With What One Might Call The Cartesian Catastrophe. The Catastrophe Consisted In The Splitting Up Of The World Into The Realms Of Matter And Mind, And The Identification Of 'mind' With Conscious Thinking. The Result Of This Identification Was The Shallow Rationalism Of L' Esprit Cartesien, And An Impoverishment Of Psychology Which It Took Three Centuries To Remedy Even In Part.

Newton's Apple And Cezanne's Apple Are Discoveries More Closely Related Than They Seem.