Such men as we are cannot fool with delicate stuff. Some men are meant to command and other must obey. There is a kind of death. Sometimes you muc… - Sherwood Anderson

I had come to the time in my life when prayer became necessary and so I invented gods and prayed to them,

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts.

It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.