“If in the evolution of consciousness we include the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, it is evidently impossible completely, or even significantly, to plan what the next stage of consciousness will be. Consciously developed plans may affect the next stage of consciousness but they…”Tagged: Consciousness, Epistemology, Evolution, Unreason
“Order is often a very desirable good and can be indispensable to intelligence and understanding, but to reduce intelligence simply to order is to trivialize intelligence.”Tagged: order, Epistemology, The Logic Force, Forcing Logic
“Something is always concealed. For no manifestation reveals everything, and interpretation, no matter how carefully formulated, can never be total in its verbal formulation.”Tagged: Limits of Knowledge, Concealment, Forever Grapsing, Epistemology
“As we study other peoples, past or present, we dissolve the totality of their existence into items we are able to handle and fail to note the other parts of their lives which remain unassimilable to ours as a whole.”Tagged: Knowledge Without First-Hand Proximity, Issues of Abstraction, Epistemology, The Problem of Knowledge Abstraction
“One of the abiding problems of explanation is that it splits issues analytically in order to clarify them, and in the process often impoverishes or denatures the issues, depriving them of some of their full and essential depth.”Tagged: The Limits of Knowledge, Epistemology, Analytical Reductionism, Hurtles In Objective Interpretation