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)

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

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