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 light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

This paragraph from Lovecraft's story called The Call of Cthulhu is very representative of his ideas and views on life, which were suprisingly critical and clever considering the common opinion many people have of him as just a writer of horror stories. In many of his stories, Lovecraft not only expressed the intense terror of weird tales, but included a context comprised of his main views on life, which provide insightful and sharp criticism of the modern society, as well as ideas on how to change it for the better.

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