The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods