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Date: 1641
Gravity is coexistence with a heavy body in the same way that the mind is coextensive with the body
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1746
"Passions are opposed to passions and one can serve as a counterweight to another."
preview | full record— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747)
Date: 1947, 1958
"Modern concepts are like a kind of electrical supercharge to his brain (a natural consequence of the extreme complexity of these concepts and of the situations in which we struggle), and, to pursue the metaphor, his nerves and senses are frequently short-circuited"
preview | full record— Lefebvre, Henri (1901-1991)
