H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the 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 the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.