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Man tries to make a simplified and intelligible picture of the world. He then tries to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and overcome it. He makes this cosmos the pivot of his emotional life in order to find the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. The supreme task is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the entire cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience

sympathy (from the Greek): suffering with, together