'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.' - Voltaire 

● To perceive reality as it is, one has to be a passive, holistic super receptor and decoder of information from subatomic to physical level, to be OMNIPRESENT - OMNISTIENT. That, one is not! ' - fmoesf

● “THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM; THE FIRST APPEARANCE DECEIVES MANY; THE INTELLIGENCE OF A FEW PERCEIVES WHAT HAS BEEN CAREFULLY HIDDEN.” -Phaedrus 

● 'WE KNOW THE WORLD ONLY AS IT APPEARS TO US, NOT AS IT REALLY IS . ' ~ Immanuel Kant
Kant argued that how we perceive this external world depends on how the inputs of that world are processed by our cognitive faculties and sensory apparatus. This implies that our cognitive intuitions may “distort our representation of what exists.” And this means we know the world only as it appears to us, not as it really is. Furthermore things as they really are may not even be in space and time! [Thus Kant’s Copernican revolution. We are at the center of our reality, structuring it with our minds; our minds are not passive receptors of the external world.] '

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http://reasonandmeaning.com/2014/10/31/theories-of-human-nature-chapter-13-kant-part-1/