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‘There’s no denying that before anything else can be understood, thinking must be understood. Whoever denies this fails to realize that man is not the first link in the chain of creation but the last. In order to explain the world by means of concepts, we cannot start from the elements of existence which came first in time, but we must begin with that which is given to us as the nearest and most intimate.’

‘We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. We shall attempt no speculations concerning the interactions of Nature and spirit. Rather shall we probe into the depths of our own being, to find there those elements which we saved in our flight from Nature.’

‘We have, it is true, torn ourselves away from Nature, but we must none the less have taken something of her with us into our own being. This element of Nature in us we must seek out, and then we shall find the connection with her once more.’

‘We seem born to be dissatisfied. And our thirst for knowledge is but a special instance of this dissatisfaction. Every glance at Nature evokes in us a multitude of questions. Every phenomenon we meet sets us a new problem. Every experience is a riddle. Nowhere are we satisfied with what Nature spreads out before our senses.’