' A step beyond ourselves '...

I have tried to study the nature of the mind and to understand its office in knowing.

And the end of all my studies brought me to the sequel that I was compelled to testify to Hume's strange statements: "Nothing is ever really present with the mind but its perceptions. . . .

We never really advance a step beyond ourselves. . . ..

Philosophy informs us that everything which appears to the mind is nothing but a perception, and is interrupted and dependent on the mind, whereas the vulgar confound perceptions and objects, and attribute a distinct, continued existence to the very things they feel or see.

There is no question of importance whose decision is not comprised in the science of mind; and there is none which can be decided with any certainty before we become acquainted with that."



-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 4:
The Challenge of Mentalism > # 207
Paul Brunton