„Regelhaftigkeit ist also nicht dem Spiel, sondern allgemeiner dem Operieren überhaupt eigentümlich!“ (p. 115) #Frese #Regelhaftigkeit #Spiel
„Astronomers had long contented themselves with proving, from the phaenomena, the true motions, order, and magnitude of the heavenly bodies: Till a philosopher, at last, arose, who seems, from the happiest reasoning, to have also determined the laws and forces, by which the revolutions of the planets are governed and directed.“ (p. 19) #Hume #Astronomers
„Those who become practically versed in nature are, the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician, but all (as matters now stand) with faint efforts and meagre success.“ (p. 15) #FrancisBacon #nature #magician
„La Monade, dont nous parlerons ici, n’est autre chose, qu’une substance simple, qui entre dans les composés; simple, c’est-à-dire sans parties.“ (no. 1) #Leibniz #Monade
„Mit dem Selbstbewußtsein sind wir also nun in das einheimische Reich der Wahrheit eingetreten.“ (p. 138) #Hegel #Selbstbewußtsein #Wahrheit