When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world.
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Small things and slight occurrences have caught my attention and caused me to reflect a little.
In the little essays that follow, I have no grand theory to prove, no single message to convey.
Rather than study philosophy, I should have studied insects.
I wish now that I had not wasted so much time on the imponderable questions of metaphysics but had used it to more worthwhile effect.
When I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world