Tuesday 20 March 2007

Whats this... Oh my god, I've started thinking!

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.
- Erich Fromm, "To Have or to Be?", 1979

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

say what now?
Mabye it's time to get sily again?and I was wondering if somewhere in the law of plausibilty,Folleterre is on your way?
LOVE to you guys and ahave a safe trip back in the "cibvilisation"
LOVE
Lanai