Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Rene Magritte

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Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

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My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected…

Rene Magritte

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Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use…

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I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

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Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide…

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We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be…

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Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

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A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

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If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing…

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“I despise my own past and that of others. I despise resignation, patience, professional heroism and all the obligatory sentiments. I also despise the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, radio announcers' voices, aerodynamics, the Boy Scouts, the smell of naphtha, the news, and drunks. I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a…

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