“[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.” RealitySocialSituationMadnessBlindTricksPsychologicalBlindnessObliviousnessSocial GamesPreoccupations Book:The Denial of Death Source: The Denial of Death
“There is so much grit in the bottom of the container, almost all our natural preoccupations are low ones, and in most cases the rag-bag of consciousness is only unified by the experience of great art or of intense love. Neither of these was relevant to my messy and absent-minded goings-on.” LoveArtConsciousnessIntenseIris MurdochGreat ArtThe Black PrincePreoccupations Book:The Black Prince Source: The Black Prince