Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.
– Johannes Purkinje
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- The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later. – Criss Jami
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- We don’t get to choose what truths God reveals to us — but we do get to choose what we do with the truths — whom we share it with and how. – Carol Goodman
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- Today I trust me. I trust in my perceptions. Today I will live my own truth that glows within, a life of no deceptions. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
- Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one’s most reassuring self-deceptions! – Ashim Shanker
- For Satan’s deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles. – Billy Graham
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- Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives. – Ian McDonald
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- Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use. – Johannes Kepler
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- Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam – Johannes Scotus Eriugena
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- Time is a structured perception of human brain on natural events. Eternity ain’t based on the human perception, but on perpetual cycle. – Toba Beta
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