Rebecca

“It had for a long time seemed true to me that "ignorance" was rather a state of false knowledge, giving one a deceptive sense of security which rested on the ability to remain uninformed.”
― Sheridan Fenwick, Getting It: The Psychology of EST

“At present, when people become aware of this [common metaphorical] imagery, they tend to think of it as merely a surface dressing of isolated metaphors - as a kind of optional decorative paint that is sometimes added to ideas after they are formed, so as to make them clear to outsiders. But really such symbolism is an integral part of our thought-structure. It does crucial work on all topics, not just in a few supposedly marginal areas such as religion and emotion, where symbols are known to be at home, but throughout our thinking.”
― Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By

“She sensed that what her aunt spoke of as love was something else—a bribe, a threat, an indecent will to power. She knew that the kind of imprisonment that love might impose was also, mysteriously, a freedom for the soul and spirit, was water in the dry place, and had nothing to do with the prisons, churches, laws, rewards, and punishments, that so positively cluttered the landscape of her aunt’s mind.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

“Hands don't catch thoughts”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit