So much existed: so much to be felt and seen and known! A single life was not enough… - Jack Vance

A troubled society is like a man with a stomach-ache. When he purges himself, he improves.

Who is seducing whom? If we are working to the same ends, there is no need for so many cross-purposes.

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another’s mind.