Nature has her revenge IV (lo dijo Hulme II)

Now at certain times, by the use of either force or rhetoric, these instincts have been suppressed [...] Just as in the case of the other instincts, Nature has her revenge.


The instincts that find their right and proper outlet in religion
must come out in some other way.

You don’t believe in a God,

so you begin to believe that man is a god.

You don’t believe in Heaven,

so you begin to believe in a heaven on earth.