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The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.

— Vernon Howard

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The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.

The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.

Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.

Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.

Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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