Card #65 – ”Shed An Illusion” from the Creative Whack Pack
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German phillsopher
Ludwig Börne: “Shedding an illusion can make you wiser than discovering a new truth.”
From the beginning of civilization, a basic truth was that the sun revolved around the earth. Anyone could easily verify this by observing that the sun rose in the east, circled high overhead, and then set in the west.
This truth was challenged in the 16th century by Copernicus who said that the sun’s revolution around the earth was merely an illusion created by the earth’s daily rotation on its own axis.
The next generation of scientists (Kepler, Galileo, Newton) found that shedding the illusion of geocentrism helped them question other apparent truths, and ultimately find newer ones.
— What truths can you shed as illusions?