#plain man

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#complicated thing #each #earth #explain #himself

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#forward #go #heaven #man #once