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David Hume1711–1776

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 on philosophy

A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 1: Of the understanding, Part 4, Section 7

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