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No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The I is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
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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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
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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.
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For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now the present is the only thing that has no end.
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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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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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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
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The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.
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Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
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The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.
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