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“What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.”

Ifs Way Suffering Wish Perfect Needed Moon Equal Disease Errors Bread Intensity Desirable Not Being Perfect

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.”

Knows Men Should Mind Truth Purpose Common Progress Example Moon Disease Seasons Errors Curiosity Determine Curious Chiefs Motive Etc Restless Malady Seasons Change

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“I realise that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors - but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch, in the next 200 years, will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. My regret will have been that I could not behold its demise.”

Men Years Has Beens Ends Christian Lying Next Term Christianity Regret Disease Errors Commit Realising Imperfection Demise Epoch

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”

People Moving Social Memories Decision Steps Dying Car Style Fronts Particular Tomorrow Drug Disease Judgment Errors Bunch Motto Misuse Life Style

Book:A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

“Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.”

Feelings Disease Behavior Errors Fishes Logical Whales Classifying

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.”

Soul Understanding Atheism Disease Errors Atheist

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study