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“Only by massive denial, repression of affect, and severe numbing of our human faculties and sensitivities could a person not feel a sense of remorse, apprehension, and dread.”
― Jerry S. Piven, Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Moral Terror

“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Once we know, on a deep level, that we must die, we choose, in various ways, purposely to give up our life in order to dispel the unbearable feelings of helplessness and dread.”
― Robert W. Firestone, The Fantasy Bond : Structure of Psychological Defenses

“Consciousness seems to be nature's ingenious mode of self-torture.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety