Frasi di Étienne Bonnot De Condillac

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac è stato un filosofo, enciclopedista ed economista francese.

Contemporaneo di Adam Smith e d'ispirazione liberale, è stato un esponente di spicco del sensismo, ma viene ricordato anche per il suo contributo alla psicologia, alla gnoseologia e alla filosofia della mente. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Settembre 1714 – 3. Agosto 1780
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“To the eye of God there are no numbers: seeing all things at one time, he counts nothing.”

As quoted in Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy (1997), p. 101.

“The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise.”

As quoted in David Booth, The principles of English composition (1831), p. 8.

“Our ideas are transformed sensations.”

As quoted in Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs (1878), p. 204.

“The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.”

As quoted in Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry (trans. Robert Kerr, 1790), Preface, p. xiv.

“It is not true that on an exchange of commodities we give value for value. On the contrary, each of the two contracting parties in every case, gives a less for a greater value. … If we really exchanged equal values, neither party could make a profit. And yet, they both gain, or ought to gain. Why? The value of a thing consists solely in its relation to our wants. What is more to the one is less to the other, and vice versa.”

… It is not to be assumed that we offer for sale articles required for our own consumption. … We wish to part with a useless thing, in order to get one that we need; we want to give less for more. … It was natural to think that, in an exchange, value was given for value, whenever each of the articles exchanged was of equal value with the same quantity of gold. … But there is another point to be considered in our calculation. The question is, whether we both exchange something superfluous for something necessary.
Le Commerce et le Gouvernement (1776), as quoted in Marx's Capital, Vol. I, Ch. 5.

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