Crossword-Solution: PROMINENT 9 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

(about William Blake)[Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think is God is merely prudence, and the restrainer and inhibitor of energy, which results in fear and passivity and "imaginative death." And what we so often call "reason" and think is so fine, is not intelligence or understanding at all, but just this: it is arguing from our *memory* and the sensations of our body and from the warnings of other people, that if we do such and suc…

If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even though life is often like this — the absconding cashier on his way to Nicaragua is killed in a collision at the airport, the prominent statesman dies of a stroke in the midst of the negotiations he has spent years to bring about, the young lovers are drowned in a boating accident the day before their marriage — such events, the warp and woof of everyday life, seem irrelevan…