You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.