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| 37 | 188 | Without these illusions, these View more quotes about precious">precious, invaluable, wonderful illusions, how could one exist? You open your eyes and see a world, but how could this be? The world somehow stimulates you in such a way that you produce a representation of the world. |
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| 37 | 185 | You thrust a stick against the ground and say you have felt the ground, and it surely seems so, but it is an illusion. |
| 37 | 186 | The most you could feel is a pressure on your fingers or hand. |
| 37 | 187 | In sleep, do you not see, hear, feel, and experience, though you do not leave your couch? That the body be protected it is surely desirable that you should seem to feel, say, a pain in an injured limb, that you will remove it from danger, or tend to it, but the limb may be felt when it no longer exists. |
| 37 | 188 | Without these illusions, these precious, invaluable, wonderful illusions, how could one exist? You open your eyes and see a world, but how could this be? The world somehow stimulates you in such a way that you produce a representation of the world. |
| 37 | 189 | Your eyes do not throw nets out and draw trees and mountains into your head. |
| 37 | 190 | Remember the dreams. |
| 37 | 191 | The world which causes you to see and feel may be quite other than the seemings and feelings which it produces, and yet, surely, it is somehow related to those seemings and feelings, else we could not survive. |