Saul Bellow Quotes on Truth
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I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Apparently the rise of consciousness is linked to certain kinds of privation. It is the bitterness of self-consciousness that we knowers know best. Critical of the illusions that sustained mankind in earlier times, this self-consciousness of ours does little to sustain us now. The question is: which is disenchanted, the world itself or the consciousness we have of it?
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.