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I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. – Socrates

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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. – Johann von Goethe

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot

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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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