The pursuit of clarity is more closely related to a breakdown than to sanity. Sanity depends upon leaving the acceptable delusions and prejudices of one’s culture unchallenged; a breakdown is finding oneself at odds with cognition because one has discovered this.

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Social affinities and aversions have the strength to leave the forensic mind peerless.


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When our delusions succeed, we gain confidence and friends. But when our illusions fail, it is our education that succeeds, our reputation.
 

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