If you are thinking one thing at one moment, then something totally different the next, an instantaneous change of mind, which idea was right? Or were they both wrong? And when thereafter you are inclined to inquire of yourself the proper- or perhaps the realistic- viewpoint, did you ever really believe that first thought in the first place, or was it just an illusion? Something you wanted to believe just to have something you believed in?
It is said that with the right evidence a case can be solved with considerable ease, but perhaps it is not the evidence we are lacking, but rather the solution itself, which will inevitably bring us to the evidence we so often seek to find. A backward method, yes, but nonetheless conducive to the ends, as the end is in fact the means.
And when all is said and done, the question is not one of considerable cruelty, but rather plain and simple: is it the truth that keeps us from accepting the reality, or reality that keeps us from seeing the truth?
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