Jeremy Bentham quote: Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was ...

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

~ Jeremy Bentham ~

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