Posted: Jan 02, 2016 4:16 pm
by laklak
To paraphrase Thoreau, most men live lives of quiet self-deception. Two other great philosophers also spring to mind. Jack Nicholson's "you can't handle the truth" and The Dude's "well, yeah, that's just your opinion, man".

Without that self-deception, the most basic tenet of which is our own lives have meaning, we'd likely off ourselves.