The philosophical point of view of the average man - if that term may be applied to his naive realism - has a claim to the highest consideration.
More Quotes from Ernst Mach:
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.Ernst Mach
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
Ernst Mach
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
Ernst Mach
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Ernst Mach
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.
Ernst Mach
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
Ernst Mach
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