"The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly..." - Quote by H L Mencken
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.
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“Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.”
“Human intellect is incurably abstract.”
“The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.”
More on Thinking
“The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.”
“What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.”
“The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.”