“how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”

Chapters: 47. Effortless Success

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“I am malicious because I am miserable”

Chapters:

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“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.”

Chapters: 48. Unlearning

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“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”

Chapters:

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“You are my creator but I am your master; Obey!”

Chapters: 80. A Golden Age

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“Mary Shelley's Frankenstein... contains what might be regarded as an allegorical prophetic history of the development of romanticism.”

— Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970 CE
“20th century Voltaire”
from History of Western Philosophy

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“The Frankenstein myth confronts Homo sapiens with the fact that the last days are fast approaching... the pace of technological development will soon lead to the replacement of Homo sapiens by completely different beings”

— Yuval Harari יובל נח הררי‎ 1976 CE –
Israeli historian, professor, and philosopher

from Sapiens

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