Ludwig Buchner

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we…

— Ludwig Buchner

We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of…

— Ludwig Buchner

A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles…

— Ludwig Buchner

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore…

— Ludwig Buchner

The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite)…

— Ludwig Buchner

Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

— Ludwig Buchner

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

— Ludwig Buchner

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

— Ludwig Buchner