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“If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.”

Ifs Firsts May Mankind Judgment Deserve Weak Tyranny Deception Jealous Deceived Credulity Falseness

Book:Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.”

Hurt Atheism Mankind Limits Ambition Intellectual Misery Positive Atheism Artistic Climbs Sanity Prudent Credulity

Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.”

Ifs Men Religion Mankind Circumstances Fortune Driven Useless Uncertainty Favour Superstitious Credulity Hopes And Fears

Book:A Theologico-Political Treatise

Source: A Theologico-Political Treatise

“There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.”

Moral Mankind Intellectual Universal Blind Misery Credulity Covetousness

Book:Nostromo

Source: Nostromo

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