The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the… - Emil Cioran

Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.