But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well. - Walter M. Miller

You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.

Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.

"[...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?"
"Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else."