Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.
Edith HamiltonOur word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
Edith Hamilton...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.
Edith Hamilton