Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them.
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.