In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
Richard WhatelyFalsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
Richard WhatelyThe heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
Richard Whately