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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)

“There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.”

Body Names Given Process My Own Consciousness Events Objects Skins Technique Defined Visible Divinity Internals Organs Introducing Sacraments Introduction Tangible Altered Uneasy Borderline

Author:Timothy Leary

“Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.”

Soul Body Desire Possibility Objects Fame Faculty Organs Adapted Relish Fruition Objects Of Desire

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.”

Thinking Humans Made Human Beings Animal Objects Machines Traditional Cells Atoms Academic Organs Molecules Tissues

Author:Stanislav Grof

“The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.”

Heart Self Matter Body Causes Nature Brain Seeing Objects Pressure Hearing Resistance Human Life Strings Nerves Endeavor Organs Mediation Heart And Brain Membranes

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.”

Vision Knowing Objects Organs Not Knowing Defects

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

“Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You'll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, “Folks, we're encountering a little turbulence.” Meanwhile they are up there in the cockpit trying desperately to clean water-buffalo organs off the windshield.”

Trying Littles Water Objects Clean Folks Size Strikes Flying Enormous Planes Pilots Organs Buffalo Clean Water Turbulence Airborne Shuddering Cockpit Water Buffalo

Author:Dave Barry