how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any - lifted from the no of all nothing - human merely being doubt unimaginable You?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Our senses and doubts together shape the impossible human experience.
- In plain terms
- Senses and doubt define humanity.
- What can you take from it?
- Acknowledge both perception and uncertainty.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do doubt and perception interact?
- What is 'unimaginable you'?
Another view
Sentence is fragmented, making meaning ambiguous.
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