Creepypasta: Lovecraft's Perspective on the Universe

Today, something a little different: one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most thought-provoking quotations that will still send shivers up the spine of any thinking person. Just meditate on the full implications of this sort of “Lovecraftian Humanism.”

“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 infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”

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