Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes. Ernst Mach attributebodycall Change image and share on social
Personally, people know themselves very poorly. Ernst Mach peoplepersonallypoorly Change image and share on social
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. Ernst Mach blindnesscreationdeafness share on social
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. Ernst Mach connectdreamimportance Change image and share on social
The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. Ernst Mach biologicaldevelopfully share on social
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. Ernst Mach breakbrightlydaily share on social
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. Ernst Mach ordinarilypainpleasure Change image and share on social
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. Ernst Mach boychainearly share on social
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. Ernst Mach adaptaverageconception share on social
A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth. Ernst Mach colourdependenceinstance Change image and share on social
