Quote by William Hazlitt
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. – William Hazlitt

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Integrity
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. – William Hazlitt

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Courage
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Superstition
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism. – Edward Abbey

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is bad luck to be superstitious. – Andrew W. Mathis

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The best man is like water.
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It dwells in lowly places that all disdain.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. – Arthur Helps

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