I Suppose Therefore That All Things I See Are 1

"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."

"“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”"

"“Why is thought being a secretion of brain, more wonderful than gravity a property of matter? It is our arrogance, our admiration of ourselves.”"

"“What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”"

"“The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.”"

"“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”"