_Imagination._[48]--It is that deceitful part in man, that mistress of… — Pensées

Pensées — Blaise Pascal

_Imagination._[48]--It is that deceitful part in man, that mistress of error and falsity, the more deceptive that she is not always so; for she would be an infallible rule of truth, if she were an infallible rule of falsehood. But being most generally false, she gives no sign of her nature, impressing the same character on the true and the false.

מקום: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶273
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