| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| |
| |
| NUMBER: | 8205 |
| QUOTATION: | We can say that the sound is the primary object of the act of hearing, and that the act of hearing itself is the secondary object. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Franz Clemens Brentano (18381917), Austrian philosopher. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, tr. Antos C. Rancurello et al., p. 128, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1973). |
| |
| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
|
|