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Blindness Quote by Ernst Mach

“The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and…” quote by Ernst Mach — Download Open image

“The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.”

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