"When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing."

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"When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing."

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object."

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"In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them."

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"It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless."

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"In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them."

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"When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word."

Philosophy

"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."

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"Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears."

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"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."

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"When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing."

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