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.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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Life experience Consciousness Subconscious

Author

Charles Sanders Peirce

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

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United States

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Citation

Peirce, Charles Sanders. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Science and Philosophy. Vol. 7, The Belknap Press, 1966, par. 547.

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Source
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Medium
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Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
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Time
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