Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
Any planet is “Earth” to those that live on it.
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the angels sing.
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.
All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can’t be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.
A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!
A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is – or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.
A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.
