Charles Sanders Peirce Quote

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.


Vol. VII, par. 547 - Collected Papers (1931-1958)


Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a...

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a...

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a...

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a...