“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.