Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.