French academic
A French philosopher who turned his attention inward — not to theology but to the mechanics of the mind itself, asking how thought forms and what psychology might mean before the word had settled.
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was born on 30 September 1714 in France and became both a Catholic priest and a philosopher, though his clerical vocation never defined his intellectual one. He devoted his work to psychology and the philosophy of the mind, probing questions about perception, language, and how human understanding builds itself from sensation. His inquiries belonged to the Enlightenment's broader turn toward empiricism, but he carved his own path through the thickets of consciousness. He died on either 2 or 3 August 1780, the exact date lost to the gap between records.
Sourced, dated quotes from Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
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.
The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.
We shall not … begin this logic by definitions, axioms, or principles; we shall begin by observing the lessons which nature gives us.
The tone in which an Englishman expresses anger would, in Italy, be only a mark of surprise.
Our ideas are transformed sensations.
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