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“Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.”

Pay Attention Opinion Opponents Repeats Fancy

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.”

Men Different Reason Used Passion Causes Natural Opinion Four Ignorance Judgment Seeds Ridiculous Ghost Devotion Fancy One Man Ceremony Casual

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.”

Ifs Giving Doe Real Character Would Be Quality Opinion Evidence Mark Errors Queens Fancy Falsehood Deceiving Infallible Deceitful

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.”

Thinking Facts Care Moral Opinion Honesty Sorrow Manage Burning Fancy Reports Diaries Exquisite Accuracy Loaded Evaluation

Author:E. B. White

“Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.”

Men Opinion Sick Cures Miserable Fancy

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.”

Men Opinion Fancy Alarms

Author:Epictetus

“I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.”