Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

Ernst MachPhysicist · Austrian · 1838 – 1916
More from Ernst Mach
Philosophy Quotes
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. — Abraham Lincoln
  • I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
  • Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. — Ernst Mach
  • Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. — Ernst Mach
  • Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. — Ernst Mach
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026