The digression about Anselmo and Lothario illustrates a deep symbolic truth: those who demand empirical sensory evidence and are skeptical of the good intentions of those they should trust thereby cause the very problems they fear—suggesting that empirical evidence is the least reliable basis for understanding human relationships.
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Unidentified Speaker — Great Authors - Literature of the Renaissance - Cervantes, … [D-GPmkVu_cY]Evidence Quote
“those of us who demand the evidence of the senses and who are skeptical about the good intentions of those that we ought to trust are in fact the ones who cause problems for ourselves”
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