Worms

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen.