An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

A perfect God can’t be a deceiver, because deceiving comes from some weakness. Then why are you wrong so often? You sit somewhere between God and nothing, and your power to understand has limits.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

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