Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.
Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.
Sacred texts always offend reason.
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.