Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

That the world is, is the mystical.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

All I know is what I have words for.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.