“Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.” PersonsDoeOrderPracticeMillionsGenerationsTroubleEasierHarmRejectsFlawsOminous Author:Freya Stark
“The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.” ThinkingKnowsWayDoeRealityBehindsKnownGreaterTroubleStrangeTruth IsBurdenHarmIgnorantPerilEnviedDeluded Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldTryingSchoolTogetherReadingAttentionGoneTroublePaidHarmSundayGood WorkBotheredDoing GoodSleevesAnnoyedSunday SchoolReading The Bible Author:Jack McDevitt
“Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books can, for example, give you ideas. I don't know if you've ever had an idea before, but, if you have, you know how much trouble an idea can get you into.” IfsKnowsGivingKindBookIdeasProblemCausesKnow HowTroubleExampleHarmAll Kinds Author:Pseudonymous Bosch