The most merciful thing in the world... 

is the inability of the human mind 

to correlate all its contents.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, 

and the one which best lends itself 

to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Toil without song 

is like 

a weary journey 

without an end.

If religion were true, 

its followers would not try to bludgeon their young 

into an artificial conformity; 

but would merely insist 

on their unbending quest for truth, 

irrespective of artificial backgrounds 

or practical consequences.

We live on a placid island of ignorance 

in the midst of black seas of infinity.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. 

What he is, 

as a sensitive instrument 

responsive to the world's beauty, 

is everything!