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There is no way in which to understand the world without first det

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

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Life
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman

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Love
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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. – Diane Ackerman

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

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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 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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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. – William Osler

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