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What is clearer than that man is not furnished for hunting, much less for eating, other animals? In one word, we seem to be admirably admonished by Cicero that man was destined for other things than for seizing and cutting the throats of other animals.

Pierre Gassendi

Man lives very well upon flesh, you say, but, if he thinks this food to be natural to him, why does he not use it as it is, as furnished to him by Nature? But, in fact, he shrinks in horror from seizing and rending living or even raw flesh with his teeth, and lights a fire to change its natural and proper condition

Pierre Gassendi

If we know anything we know it by mathematics; but those people have no concern for the true and legitimate science of things! they cling to trivialities!

Pierre Gassendi

Pierre Gassendi

Pierre Gassendi

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Born: January 22, 1592

Died: October 24, 1655 (aged 63)

Bio: Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals.

Known for:

The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543)
Pierre Gassendi's Institutio Logica
Opera omnia

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