Gross State

Famous quotes containing the words gross and/or state:

“How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on’t, ah fie! ‘tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that, owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of “unperturbedness” or quietude.”
—Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd cen., A.d.)