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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.”
― Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Moral Terror
― 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.”
― Blindsight
― 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.”
― The Fantasy Bond : Structure of Psychological Defenses
― The Fantasy Bond : Structure of Psychological Defenses
“Consciousness seems to be nature's ingenious mode of self-torture.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“It's enough for me to want something for that thing to die. My destiny, however, is not powerful enough to prove deadly to just anything. It has the unfortunate disadvantage of being deadly only to those things I want.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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