When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.
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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.Ernst Mach
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
Ernst Mach
The popular notion of an antithesis between appearance and reality has exercised a very powerful influence on scientific and philosophical thought.
Ernst Mach
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
Ernst Mach
The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas.
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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
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