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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Our Knowledge of the External World (1914)
To realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Our Knowledge of the External World (1914)
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
Our Knowledge of the External World (1914)
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
Our Knowledge of the External World (1914)
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Our Knowledge of the External World (1914)
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.
Our Knowledge of the External World (1914)