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de La Mettrie: L'Homme Machine 01 Print E-mail
Sunday, 16 April 2006
Julien Offray de La Mettrie

L'Homme Machine

Page 14 of the Open Court Classics edition.

"IL ne suffit pas à un sage d'étudier la nature et la vérité; il doit oser la dire en faveur du petit nombre de ceux qui veulent et peuvent penser; car pour les autres, qui sont volontairement esclaves des préjugés, il ne leur est pas plus possible d'atteindre la vérité, qu'aux grenouilles de voler."

The complete english translation can be found here.
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Hume:Enquiry 01 Print E-mail
Sunday, 16 April 2006

 

David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Sect. VII. Of the Idea of necessary Connexion, Part I.

"THE great advantage of the mathematical sciences above the moral consists in this, that the ideas of the former, being sensible, are always clear and determinate, the smallest distinction between them is immediately perceptible, and the same terms are still expressive of the same ideas, without ambiguity or variation."



Last Updated ( Sunday, 18 October 2009 )