Ancient Quote by Johannes Stark

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

— Alvar Aalto

“What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a plurality of acts and the identifiability of…

— Max Scheler

“If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients…

— Vitruvius

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

— Simone Weil

“because the Greeks existed among things and did not position the world in relation to themselves, they could not be subiectum. They did not…

— Barbara Bolt

“The view that correspondence knowledge of independent reality requires passive cognition has been around for a long time. In De anima, Aristotle uses Plato’s…

— Lee Braver

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients…

— Albert Einstein

These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects…

— John Locke

“It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball…

— Michael Polanyi

“It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects have an existence natural…

— George Berkeley

The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther.…

— Edith Hamilton

“I extend the horizon of the senses by the imagination; … this conception … exalts me above the limited standpoint of the senses, ……

— Ludwig Feuerbach