Ludwig Buchner quotes
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“What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.”
-- Ludwig BuchnerSource : Ludwig Büchner (1891). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”
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“Death is the surest calculation that can be made.”
-- Ludwig BuchnerSource : Ludwig Büchner (1870). “Force and Matter: Empirico-philosophical Studies, Intelligibly Rendered”, p.35
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“For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.”
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“Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.”
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“A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen, who drew himself out of the bog by taking hold of his own hair.”
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“The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.”
-- Ludwig BuchnerSource : Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”
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“We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads.”
-- Ludwig BuchnerSource : Ludwig Büchner (1891). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”
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“The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.”
-- Ludwig BuchnerSource : Ludwig Büchner (1891). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”
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