We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

I like man, but not men

It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like.

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.