Ludwig Buchner Quotes

• For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Dream, World, Wit

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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 Buchner

  Work, Science, Connections

  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 Buchner

  Made, Calculations

  Ludwig Büchner (1870). “Force and Matter: Empirico-philosophical Studies, Intelligibly Rendered”, p.35

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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 Buchner

  Science, Connections, Finals

  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 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 Buchner

  Climbing, Goal, Finals

  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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• 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.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Hair, Creative, Bogs

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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 Buchner

  Wise, Sorry, Phases

  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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• Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Science, Thinking, Would Be

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