They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

Tea should be taken in solitude.