“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Thus the great gulf between physical and psychological research persists only when we acquiesce in our habitual stereotyped conceptions. ”
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“ Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. ”
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“ The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ”
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“ Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. ”
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“ Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. ”
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“ The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ”
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“ Thus the great gulf between physical and psychological research persists only when we acquiesce in our habitual stereotyped conceptions. ”
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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. ”
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“ Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. ”
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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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“ Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. ”
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“ Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. ”
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“ My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. ”
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“ A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth. ”
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“ Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. ”
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“ Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. ”
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“ In fact, sensations of pleasure and pain, however faint they may be, really constitute an essential part of the content of all so-called emotions. ”
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“ Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. ”
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“ Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. ”
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“ Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. ”
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“ Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. ”
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