Quote of Denis Diderot - Time, matter, space — all, it...
Biography - Denis Diderot:
French philosopher, art critic and writer.
Born: 1713 - Died: 1784
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1713 - Died: 1784
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about time:
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Quotes for: matter
Quotes about space:
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
The infinitely smallest part of space is always a space, something endowed with continuity, not at all a mere point or the boundary between specified places in space.
Denis Diderot also said...
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