Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
From Ernst Mach
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
Personally, people know themselves very poorly.
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
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