Etienne Bonnot de Condillac quotes
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“Our ideas are transformed sensations.”
-- Etienne Bonnot de CondillacSource : "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs", (p. 204), 1878.
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“Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.”
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“But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.”
-- Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”
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“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”
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“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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