A small round lens reflects golden autumn leaves beside a rippling puddle on gray ground.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

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The speaker claims that people confuse the edge of what they can personally see or grasp with the edge of reality itself. Narrow perspective is mistaken for the whole world. It is a criticism of limited outlook and of the habit of assuming that what we cannot perceive does not exist.

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