Great Throughts Treasury

"If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there can be no happiness greater than this."

"Over time I came to realize that it is not that experience exists because there is an individual, but that an individual exists because there is experience. I thus arrived at the idea that experience is more fundamental than individual differences, and in this way I was able to avoid solipsism."

"Knowing and its object are completely unified."

"Knowing and the will are simply two ways of referring to one phenomenon by separating the distinctive aspects."

"The standard of truth is not external."

"We now must ask whether truth ever exists totally separate from the subject? From the standpoint of pure experience, there is no such thing as an object divorced from the subject."

"The so-called objective world does not come into existence apart from our subjectivity."

"Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality."