“Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?”
“If we do not know ourselves in the waking world, what chance in dreams?”
“Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.”
“There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.”
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ”
“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”