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“I am not my own light unto myself.”

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Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was a prominent French philosopher of the 17th century, known as one of the key figures in the development of rationalist philosophy. His thoughts have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophical thought. more

“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.”

Thinking Ideas Soul Pain Suffering Turns Passion Awareness Capacity Relation My Soul No Idea Mutual Faculty Sensations My Thoughts My Passion Sensory

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.”

Men Believe Dies White Fields Battle Medicine White Man Injured Lingering

Book:Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches

Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches

“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.”

Men War Done Hands Hurt White Support Blood Weight Rose Injustice Our Family Shed White Man Veins Massacres Unheard Forts Provoked Support Me Indignity

Author:Sitting Bull

“I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.”

Soldier Chiefs

Author:Sitting Bull

“This is a good day to die. Follow me!”

Dies Good Day Follow Me

Author:Sitting Bull

“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.”

Ifs Want Lying Attention Paid

Author:Sitting Bull

“I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.”

Children Body Dies Games Weak Indian My Children Shut Up Mice Hunters Hunts Prairie Buffalo

Author:Sitting Bull

“It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.”

Stills Natural Psychology Natural Science

Book:Conditioned Reflexes

Source: Conditioned Reflexes

“The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?”

World Animal Sun One Thing Relation Reactions

Author:Ivan Pavlov

“There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.”

Real Light Film Projects Proven Particles

Author:Richard Gere

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