Here, we have a few quotes from The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance that I find to be particularly insightful and thought provoking...
"Man's mind clumsily and tediously and laboriously patches little trivialities together and gets a result--such as it is. My mind creates! Do you get the force of that? Creates anything it desires--and in a moment. Creates without material. Creates fluids, solids, colors--anything, everything--out of the airy nothing which is called Thought. A man imagines a silk thread, imagines a machine to make it, imagines a picture, then by weeks of labor embroiders it on canvas with the thread. I think the whole thing, and in a moment it is before you--created." (85)
"You people do not suspect that "As we walked along homeward, Seppi said,
all of your acts are of one size "We always prized him, but never so much
and importance, but it is true; to as now, when we are going to lose him."
snatch at an appointed fly is as (100)
big with fate for you as in any
other appointed act--" (88)
all of your acts are of one size "We always prized him, but never so much
and importance, but it is true; to as now, when we are going to lose him."
snatch at an appointed fly is as (100)
big with fate for you as in any
other appointed act--" (88)
"Next, Christianity was born. Then ages of Europe passed in review before us, and we saw Christianity and Civilization march hand in hand through those ages, 'leaving famine and death and desolation in their wake, and other signs of the progress of the human race,' as Satan observed." (117)
"'You perceive,' he said, 'that you have made continual progress. Cain did his murder with a club; the Hebrews did their murders with javelins and swords; the Greeks and Romans added protective armor and the fine arts of military organization and generalship; the Christian has added guns and gunpowder; a few centuries from now he will have so greatly improved the deadly effectiveness of his weapons of slaughter that all men will confess that without Christian civilization war must have remained a poor and trifling thing to the end of time." (118)