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"We deceive ourselves when we pretend to judge of an object from one side only, to which our attention has been fixed by our passions. We also deceive ourselves, when we pretend to judge of a subject, when our memory does not contain all the facts, on a comparison of which the propriety of our decisions depend. Not that any person is destitute of a just perception:all have an idea of what they see;but by not mistrusting our ignorance, we are too apt to beleive that what we see in an object is all that is perceivable in it." -Claude Adrien Helvetius
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:55:13 +0000

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