Ludwig Buchner Quotes

#1. Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.

Bennett Cerf

#3. What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

Ludwig Buchner

#4. Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life ... but what is that something?

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#5. If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.

Jeff Schultz

#6. When we give up on what draws us near to God, we become like beasts.

L. Michael Morales

#7. A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen, who drew himself out of the bog by taking hold of his own hair.

Ludwig Buchner

#8. I just tripped over a pair of shoes and almost fell down and broke my neck and no I wasn't wearing them.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. Boxes
We built walls of cardboard
thinking they would keep us safe.
And they did.
Until the flames
came.

Carolee Dean

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

Ludwig Buchner

#11. Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

Ludwig Buchner

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

Ludwig Buchner

#13. The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.

Dana Gould

#14. The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

Ludwig Buchner

#15. If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.

Anna Benson

#16. The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

Ludwig Buchner

#17. I had a girlfriend when I was 17-18, and when she was 21, she wanted us to get married. I couldn't do that, because my game was my priority. We had to part ways, and there was no guilt because I had never committed to marriage.

Suresh Raina

#18. I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

Sherry Stringfield