Ludwig Buchner famous quotes

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

#Connections #Finals #Causes

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.
-- Ludwig Buchner

#Made

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

Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.
-- Ludwig Buchner

#Science #Thinking #Would Be

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

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

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

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 #Connections #Reason

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.

Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.