“It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the ‘truth’ one could still barely endure.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.”— Camille Paglia, amazon.com
“Reality is structured by belief, by a faith in fantasy that we know to be a fantasy yet we believe nonetheless.”— Simon Critchley, amazon.com
“What we call the non-revelatory aspects of nature is simply what I call the bureaucracy of biology, which other people call evolution. Our brains are these valves where we only let a little bit through. I think that it's basically nature doing that. In other words it's the bureaucracy of biology tha…”— Paul Laffoley, amazon.com
“Everyone knows that the light of the stars needs a very long time to reach us; sometimes we perceive it after the star itself has disappeared. This gap between the star as a virtual source and its perception by us, this non-simultaneity, is an inescapable part of the illusion of the world, the absen…”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com