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When a man's desires and yearnings, thirsts and longings are so strong as to upset his reasoning power and block his intuitive capacity, he is stopped from finding truth. In this condition he shuts his eyes to those facts which are displeasing or which are contrary to his desires and opens them only to those which are pleasing or agreeable to his wishes. Thinking bends easily to desires, so that the satisfaction of personal interest rather than the quest of universal truth becomes its real object.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 31 -- Perspectives > Chapter 6: Emotions and Ethics > # 50