„Thus we are born free, as we are born rational“. (p. 80) #Locke #free #rational
„Matters of fact, which are the second objects of human reason, are not ascertained in the same manner; nor is our evidence of their truth, however great, of a like nature with the foregoing. The contrary of every matter of fact is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind.“ (p. 34) #Hume #MattersOfFact #HumanReason
„In the physical world we make with impunity the assumption that one and the same material object can figure in an indefinitely large number of different processes at once.“ (p. 129) #James #PhysicalWorld
„They who have presumed to dogmatize on nature, as on some well investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted the greatest injury on philosophy and learning.“ (p. 7) #FrancisBacon #nature
„Das Lebende ist nur eine Art des Toten, und eine sehr seltene Art. – Hüten wir uns, zu denken, die Welt schaffe ewig Neues. Es gibt keine ewig dauerhaften Substanzen; die Materie ist ein ebensolcher Irrtum wie der Gott der Eleaten.“ (p. 390) #Nietzsche #Leben