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“It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.”

Desire Belief Wise Moderates Credulity

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.”

Thinking Want Believe Belief Credulity

Author:Julius Caesar

“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture