Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.
Gods have many faces.
Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.
History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.
When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.
People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.