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?

What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.

Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

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

The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.