The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. - Bertrand Russell

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.