Consciousness arises with defect, or sense of
something to be overcome. How conscious we are when striving to
think and work in ill-health!
The highest education is that which teaches us to guide ourselves by
motives which are intangible, remote, incapable of direct and
material appreciation.
Weak minds find confirmation of their beliefs in the discovery of
the same beliefs in other people. They do not take the trouble to
find out how their neighbours obtained these beliefs. If they are
current at the time, the probability is that the coincidence is
worthless as any evidence of validity.
The certainty which comes of intelligent conviction is a tempered
certainty. Its possessor knows the difficulty of the path by which
he has reached it, and the reasons which on his way have appeared so
potent against it. Fanaticism is the accompaniment of conclusions
which are not the result of reason.
To understand a thing is to understand all its laws. The thing is
then nothing but law, and mere matter seems to disappear.
What is it which governs the selection of truths which make up
religions? Why are this and that chosen? Has not the selection a
damaging effect upon the great body of truth?
Every action should be an end in itself as well as a means.
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