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is the only thing that can cure the soul, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde

is the sole source of all credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche

is differently prioritized in different cultures and epochs. The truth of vision in western, literate cultures has predominated over the evidences of sound and interlocution, of touch, smell, and taste.

Ong (1967, 1977), among others, has studied ways in which the senses are hierarchically ordered in different cultures and epochs. He argues that the truth of vision in Western, literate cultures has predominated over the evidences of sound and interlocution, of touch, smell, and taste. (11)

is all of a piece. If ears tongues and noses were removed from the world, then odors tastes and sounds would be removed as well.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) states in 'The Assayer' (1623), if ears tongues and noses were removed from the world, then odors tastes and sounds would be removed as well.

is not capable of deceiving us. Only our judgment is.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

 deceive from time to time. It is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

is compensatory --- the blind hear best, the deaf see best. Like wind through a narrow pass, the world enters us more forcefully when it must squeeze through a single sense.

The blind hear best, the deaf see best. Like wind through a narrow pass, the world enters us more forcefully when it must squeeze through a single sense.

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