Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and … - Stanisław Lem

Apathy robbed me of the strength even to despise myself.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

Faith as well as science endowed the visible world with properties that eliminated blind, incalculable chance as the author of all events. The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order...