Naronay

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“The Mind is a multiplicity of individuals.”
― Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise than Being, or, Beyond Essence

“For by what right did Xerxes invade Greece, or his father Scythia? or in any other of the ten thousand similar cases of the kind that might be produced? No, no, these men no doubt follow nature in acting thus, aye by my faith and law too, the law of nature ; not however I dare say that which we frame by way of moulding the characters of the best and strongest of us, whom we take from infancy, and taming them like lions by spells and conjuring tricks reduce them to abject slavery, telling them that they must be content with their fair share and that this is the meaning of fairness and justice. But I fancy when there arises a man of ability he flings off all these restraints and bursts them asunder and makes his escape; and trampling under foot all our written enactments (formularies)? and juggleries and spells and laws, clean against nature every one of them, our would-be slave rises up against us and shows himself our master, and then natural justice shines forth in its true light.”
― Plato, Gorgias

“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”
― Giacomo Leopardi