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Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions? - Michel de Montaigne Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Apology for Raimund Sebond,” p. 500, The Essays of Montaigne, vol. I, trans. by E.J. Trechmann, Oxford University Press, New York and London (n.d.). Futility of dogmatic philosophy.

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