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Quote by Francis Bacon
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving r

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind? – Author Unknown

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To accept reality is only to encourage it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. – Louise Nevelson

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There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. – David G. Myers, Social Psychology

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