psychological blindness Quotes

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.