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Quotes from Mind and Matter — Erwin Schrödinger

1887–1961 Austria

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Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does "life", but not so mind.

Mind and Matter (1958)

There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind.

Mind and Matter (1958)

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

Mind and Matter (1958)

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.

Mind and Matter (1958)

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.

Mind and Matter (1958)

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...

Mind and Matter (1958)

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.

Mind and Matter (1958)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Erwin Schrödinger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.