Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, because they see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine.

Titus Lucretius Carus
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Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, because they see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. The human mind is so made that it is unable to comprehend any of the causes of things, because they are too great and too many for us to grasp. This inability to comprehend causes men to fear what they do not understand. But if we could comprehend the causes of things we would not fear them and would be able to do all that we wish.

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