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‘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 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.’

‘It is only because a man is conscious of his action that he thinks himself to be its originator. But in doing so he overlooks the fact that he is driven by a cause which he cannot helpt obeyiny. Spinoza, and all who think like him, overlook the fact that man not only is conscious of his action, but also may become conscious of the causes which guide him.’