The unknown. . . became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities … - H. P. Lovecraft

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Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

H. P. Lovecraft

The unknown. . . became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.

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The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.

Children, Crippling, Favour, Feet, Mind

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

Achievement, Greatest, Human, Humans, Profit

The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'. Only egotism exists.

Egotism, Light, Pure, Sky, Stars, Turn

I am only about half alive a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

Bored, Consumed, Life, Philosophy, Suicidal, System

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Comic, Joke, Mankind, World