❝ Citação
when sound philosophy has once gained possession of the mind, superstition is effectually excluded; and one may safely affirm, that her triumph over this enemy is more compleat than over most of the vices and imperfections, incident to human nature. Love or anger, ambition or avarice, have their root in the temper and affections, which the soundest reason is scarce ever able fully to correct.
A passagem foi situada pelo solicitante em Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley, publicado em 2015 pela Fitzcarraldo Editions, em Londres. No livro, ela integra a reflexão do autor sobre o suicídio e sua tradição filosófica.