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If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.
Erwin Schrodinger
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Erwin Schrodinger
Age: 73 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 12
Died: 1961
Died: January 4
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Vienna
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schröndinger
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If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.
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The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
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I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
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Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.
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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
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Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole... Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.
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