Are you awake?

[Maynard]

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, isthe inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful pisition therin, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

The first two lines of this story really blew my mind away when I read it the first time. They scared me in ways that I've never been scared before. Yet at the same time, opened my mind to so many new possibilities.