Prejudice can be said to be a vacation from thinking. For the unthinking man it is a daily necessity, while for the thinking man it is a Sunday amusement.
Everyone has prejudices; the situation is the result of our need to speak, which in humans is endless. We even desire to speak at length on silence, and our love for it, and thus how annoying are the voices are others. This of course makes our prejudices still more ingrained!
Readings of Interest:
- "Man is that animal which drinks without thirst and is lustful year-round." Beaumarchais, Le Mariage de Figaro.
- Tang Zixi, "Drunken Sleep" 醉眠, "the mountains are as still as in ancient times"
- the Book of Odes, "As if at ease, the horses neighed..."
- Family Instructions of Master Yan, "noise without clamor."
- Coleridge, "The Aeolian Harp:" "The stilly murmer of the distant sea..."
- Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, "a thinker should be deaf."
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