The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any...
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Russell Hoban
So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in favour of the world was maintained. As soon as one tried by means of them, to picture consciousness in the process...
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Maurice MerleauPonty
There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is butperception, viewed through various prisms of context.
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Amish Tripathi
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.
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Tim LaHaye
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