The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?