The Mechanics of Virtue, aphorism 12

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Is it really pessimistic to deconstruct all mentalisms that obscure one’s own comprehension?  I suppose it could be, but mostly for those whose tender presumptions are so vulnerable that their thoughts exist to pre-empt other, more relevant thoughts, obscuring precisely the reality that makes this evasion possible, and with such an outrageous insecurity and solid ignorance, that thought itself experiences the resistance as a stout courage and unlimited source of mental optimism ... of faith in the anti-real.  




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