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Ernst Mach

"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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"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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"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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"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
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"Personally, people know themselves very poorly."
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"If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us."
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"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."
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"The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it."
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Ernst Mach
"The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies."
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Ernst Mach
"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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Ernst Mach
"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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Ernst Mach
"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience."

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Aberjhani

"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

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Aberjhani

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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