"Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go."

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Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

— Hannah Arendt