We naturally believe ourselves far more capable of reaching the centre of things than of embracing their circumference. The visible extent of the world visibly exceeds us, but as we exceed little things, we think ourselves more capable of knowing them.


Thoughts, Section II (p. 28), P.F Collier & Son. 1910


We naturally believe ourselves far more capable of reaching the centre of things than of embracing their circumference. The visible extent of the...

We naturally believe ourselves far more capable of reaching the centre of things than of embracing their circumference. The visible extent of the...

We naturally believe ourselves far more capable of reaching the centre of things than of embracing their circumference. The visible extent of the...

We naturally believe ourselves far more capable of reaching the centre of things than of embracing their circumference. The visible extent of the...