The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. — H. P. Lovecraft. American writer (1890–1937)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
...I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman; and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency, and Discrimination.
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.