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“the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of the medium, the distance of the object, and the disposition of the organ, in order to render them, within their sphere, the proper criteria of truth and falsehood.”

Reason Order Objects Evidence Distance Senses Mediums Consideration Spheres Organs Falsehood Metaphysics Disposition Criteria Truth And Falsehood

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.”

People Evil Politics Interest Responsibility Power Objects Election Mediums Glorious Agreement Governance

Author:Edmund Burke

“Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.”

Men Moments Passion Objects Reflection Competition Mediums Impulse Coward Brake

Author:William Hazlitt

“Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.”

Ifs Art Self Actors Behinds Havens Objects Paper Mediums Painter Canvas Self Centered

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.”

Firsts Causes Imagination Vision Cases Objects Sight Importance Assuming Forgotten Mediums Instance Primaries Wilderness Unreal Forgetfulness Frivolous Deductions Musings

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.”

Character Helping Hands Would Be Truth Doubt Objects Shapes Illusion Proof Mediums Colour No Doubt Reflecting Trifling Fluctuation

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.”

Children Moral Objects Development Morality Intellectual Mediums Handicrafts Moral Development Basic Education

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.”

Mean Light Action Objects Fundamentals Mediums Print Chemicals

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

“Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.”

Men Humans Objects Add Mediums Complexity Faculty Conception Imperfection Embarrassment Obscurity

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution