"The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye."

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If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.

— Baron d'Holbach