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She didn’t own anything, yet could have whatever she wanted. Exotic foods, furniture, entertainers, books, art…she only needed ask. And yet, when she was finished, it was removed. She had everything and nothing at the same time.

Warbreaker

Brandon Sanderson

Luria found that most remote villagers were not subject to the same optical illusions as citizens of the industrialized world, like the Ebbinghaus illusion.

Range

David Epstein

Accordingly, on Heidegger’s view, the question of why there is something rather than nothing comes back to the choice of ‘being-there’. Dasein chooses to make something out of nothing and so, without Dasein, there would be nothing, according to Heidegger.

Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers

Philip Stokes

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