“Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the 'elements' as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all 'bodies' are only mental symbols for element-complexes (sensation-complexes).” DoeBodyRealityProduceElementsComplexesAppearanceSymbolsPermanentSensationsRealisingPhysicistTransient Author:Ernst Mach
“It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.” MenShouldWellsMayMadeCharacterInterestWealthNumbersMoralProduceAmountBirthCircumstancesIntelligentPreparedEducatedMidstSensationsEmployedMillenniumWell Educated Author:Robert Owen
“Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.” IdeasPassionForcePowerfulAchieveEffectsProduceWineUnexpectedSensationsSubmitCatastropheExaltedDelicacyIrritationOpiumLucidity Author:Honore de Balzac
“As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.” TurnsQualityFireProduceRaisedContrarySensationsIntensityExcessFrostGood Quality Author:William Matthews
“Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.” MenMindIdeasGodFallStarsExistenceSunObjectsProduceMoonEternalWorshipAll ThingsDown AndSensesInvisibleAddressesSensationsIdealismFalling DownHomageMoon And StarsSun MoonSun Moon And Stars Book:Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding
“The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so.” IdeasBodyScienceCertainUnderstandingQualityFiguresProduceSweetBluePatternsWarmPrimariesSensationsResemblanceInsensible Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding