1. “Very few minds are normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.”
2. “Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.”
3. “One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.”
4. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
5. “All rationalism tends to minimalize the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.”
6. “The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to corelate all its contents.”
7. “Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.”
8. “From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
9. “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
10. “Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”
