"Physical contact" Quotes from Famous Books
... analysed the processes of thought by which they have been led to those beliefs which are really due to the working of their own minds. Most uncultivated persons would probably be very much surprised to hear that the existence of the friend with whose body they are in physical contact is after all only an inference.[9] But surely, in the man who has discovered that such is the case, the warmth of friendship was never dimmed by the reflection that his knowledge of his friend is not ... — Philosophy and Religion - Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge • Hastings Rashdall |