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  1. Mar 2024
    1. Do but encave yourself,And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scornsThat dwell in every region of his face

      Confirmation bias! To provide an inkling of suspicion is to provide the basis of a narrative.

    2. I’ll tear her all to pieces

      You can see he is ever switching between every single new piece of "evidence" he comes across, showing his little conviction and yet his desire for absolute truth

    3. By the world,I think my wife be honest and think she is not.I think that thou art just and think thou art not

      Like Reza, he is easily swayed by outside whispers because he has not built his identity, his true convictions, besides the insecurity that his convictions are not real.

    4. Never pray more

      Experience, knowing, knowledge is hell, torture, and destroys what we call happiness, because all happiness is is delusion

  2. Mar 2023
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  4. Sep 2021
    1. he vertuouslie considering in his mind, that all goodnesse commeth of God, deter|mined to begin with some thing acceptable to his di|uine maiestie, and therefore commanded the cleargie sincerelie and trulie to preach the word of God,

      In the play, there are many instances from Henry and those who surround him who talk of being God's choice and God's plan, and essentially anything pertaining to the idea that God favors the English and Henry V on the throne.

  5. Jan 2017
    1. It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

      I would amend this to say that we never grasp the universe as it really is, but that some of our delusions are startlingly accurate (by design).