These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know.

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There are worlds beyond this one, worlds as we've never seen. Nor can we! Our eyes do not open far enough. Try it! Try holding your eyes open! You can try holding them open as much as you want, but you'll never see, never, ever see the world beyond the veil... the Veil of Reality. It's there to protect us from them... the Ancients... the Darkness... that which we cannot understand. Nor should we. Welcome the oblivion of ignorance! For to have knowledge... is to be damned!

Dr. Maximillian Roivas, Eternal Darkness
Perhaps there are some things man was never meant to tamper with.
Arc Words, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003, Notes From The Underground

Airfare and hotel costs: $200
Bribing the museum guards to let you meet the curator: $150, and a little bit of sanity.
Purchasing scripts from the curator: $23.42 apiece, and probably permanent traumatization.
Suitcase with a secret compartment: $75.
Tricking the high school drama department into performing The King in Yellow: Priceless.

There are some things man was not meant to know.
For everything else, there's HasturCard. (c)

—Anonymous
If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
—Otto von Bismark

I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir.

—Szadek, flavor text for Magic: The Gathering card "Glimpse the Unthinkable"