You cannot teach an ego to be anything but egotistic, even though egos have the subtlest ways of pretending to be reformed. - Alan Watts

The possession of a strong will and a clever head makes some things very difficult to see

We do not really want continuity, but rather a present experience of total happiness.

The result of feeling that we are separate minds in an alien,
and mostly stupid, universe is that we have no common sense, no way of making sense of the world upon which we are agreed in common. It's just my opinion against yours, and therefore the most aggressive and violent (and thus insensitive) propagandist makes the decisions. A muddle of conflicting opinions united by force of propaganda