Resignation as to knowledge of the world is for me not an irretrievable plunge into a scepticism which leaves us to drift about in life like a derelict vessel. I see in it that effort of honesty which we must venture to make in order to arrive at the serviceable world-view which hovers within sight. Every world-view which fails to start from resignation in regard to knowledge is artificial and a mere fabrication, for it rests upon an inadmissible interpretation of the universe.

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as thi…

Que sais-je?

Quelle verite que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au dela?

There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the …