“That which cannot be expressed by speech, but by which speech is expressed—That alone know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.”
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“Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.”
― Meditations on First Philosophy
― Meditations on First Philosophy
“When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things...”
― Meditations on First Philosophy
― Meditations on First Philosophy
“Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.”
― Meditations on First Philosophy
― Meditations on First Philosophy
“That which cannot he heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived—That alone know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.”
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