Friday Philosophizing

Today's pearls of wisdom come from the Swiss philosopher Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881), who wasn't terribly prolific but still came up with this food for thought:

"The natural liking for the false has several causes:
the inheritance of prejudices, which produces an
unconscious habit, a slavery; the predominance of
the imagination over reason, which affects the
understanding; the predominance of the passions
over the conscience, which depraves the heart; the
predominance of the will over the intelligence,
which vitiates the character."