Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became A universe. Something similar happen to man. A new 'man' was produced, just as good, certainly contraditory to the old one. THE man became A man, otherwise a 'conceptual construction', one among the infinity of possible ones.
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With vassals and serfs at my side,
And of all who assem... ALFRED BUNN We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ALFRED JARRY Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music... ALFRED JARRY If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfil... ALFRED ADLER Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert. ALFRED MONTAPERT It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original... ALFRED JARRY It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them. ALFRED ADLER Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing t... ALFRED HITCHCOCK This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v... ALFRED HITCHCOCK Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died.
[Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.] ALFRED AUSTIN The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'. ALFRED BRENDEL The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to c... ALFRED ADLER To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its o... ALFRED ADLER There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile ... ALFRED HITCHCOCK We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by... ALFRED KASTLER On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilize... ALFRED NOBEL Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' ALFRED SCHNITTKE Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevi... ALFRED ADLER For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, ... ALFRED NOBEL By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir... ALFRED ENOCH Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to sit... ALFRED ADLER Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. ALFRED HITCHCOCK The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. ALFRED ADLER One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and dif... ALFRED NOBEL Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. ALFRED MARSHALL In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat... ALFRED MARSHALL In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no... ALFRED MARSHALL The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c... ALFRED MARSHALL Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de... ALFRED MARSHALL It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing... ALFRED MARSHALL Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s... ALFRED MARSHALL And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard... ALFRED MARSHALL But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money... ALFRED MARSHALL Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. ALFRED MARSHALL Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea... ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ... ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir... ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef... ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect. ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by... ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production. ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the... ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. ALFRED AUSTIN The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i... ALFRED AUSTIN I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis... ALFRED NOBEL I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in... ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. ALFRED HITCHCOCK There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course... ALFRED MOLINA