“The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.”
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 28
“It is the nature of a real thing to be inexhaustible in content; we can get an ever deeper insight into this content by the continual addition of new experiences, partly in apparent contradiction, by bringing them into harmony with one another.”
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Space—Time—Matter (1952)
Context: It is the nature of a real thing to be inexhaustible in content; we can get an ever deeper insight into this content by the continual addition of new experiences, partly in apparent contradiction, by bringing them into harmony with one another. In this interpretation, things of the real world are approximate ideas. From this arises the empirical character of all our knowledge of reality.
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