David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered On A Significant Occasion, About Living A Compassionate Life Quotes
...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.