100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
“Characterized in this way, interest properly understood is an amalgam of objective and subjective elements. An entirely objective conception would substitute true beliefs for well-founded beliefs. But it is impossible to make political decisions dependent on the possession of truth.”
Reason and Rationality (2009)
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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995, 2000)
Context: Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.

Pure Phenomenology, 1917

“253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.”
Source: On Certainty (1969)
“Objects do not depend on the concepts we have of them.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 5

Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 21