"I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration."

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the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of the medium, the distance of the object, and the disposition of the organ, in order to render them, within their sphere, the proper criteria of truth and falsehood.

— David Hume