“If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.”
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)
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“My philosophy is of the heart and not of the mind,”
Source: The Life of Pasteur (1902), p. 163
Context: I confess frankly, however, that I am not competent on the question of our philosophical schools. Of M. Comte I have only read a few absurd passages; of M. Littré I only know the beautiful pages you were inspired to write by his rare knowledge and some of his domestic virtues. My philosophy is of the heart and not of the mind, and I give myself up, for instance, to those feelings about eternity which come naturally at the bedside of a cherished child drawing its last breath. At those supreme moments, there is something in the depths of our souls which tells us that the world may be more than a mere combination of phenomena proper to a mechanical equilibrium brought out of the chaos of the elements simply through the gradual action of the forces of matter.

Letter to a Japanese Animal Welfare Society (1961)

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The Usurpation Of Language (1910)

“Philosophy is a concentrated deployment of the transgressing facilities of the mind.”
Source: The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound (2007), p. 30
Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), Introduction

Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. I