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… is from Thiry d’Holbach [2], as quoted on page 159 of Philipp Blom’s 2010 book, A Wicked Company [3]:
Men will always deceive themselves by abandoning experience to follow imaginary systems.
DBx: If not literally all, certainly too many ‘men’ – too many people – are prone to behave in the fatal way as described by Holbach. Sad.