"What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep."

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The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief weare inclined to, and there are certain flatteries to the vanity of man which we all believe by nature, until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts.

— Charles Sanders Peirce