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"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
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"Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good."
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"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view."

"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again."

"If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us."

"Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself."
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