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“every feeling is the perception of a truth...”
“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”
“Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.”
“Nihil est sine ratione.[There is nothing without a reason.]”
“...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it...”
“For all bodies are in perpetual flux like rivers, and parts are passing in and out of them continually.”
“The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its a...”
“The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledgeit would not be the source of necessary truths”
“For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do ...”
“If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.”
“if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimedes”
“And just as the same town, when looked at from different sides, appears quite different and is, as it were, multiplied in perspective, so also it happens that because of the infinite number of simp...”
“…if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archim...”
