Remember that impact is the product of two factors: population multiplied times impact per person. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Though men are inseparable from the Logos, yet they are separated in it; and though they encounter it daily, they are alienated from it Fragments

I was growing inward incessantly; like an animal that hibernates during the wintertime, I could hear other peoples' voices with my ears; my own voice, however, I could hear only in my throat. The loneliness and the solitude that lurked behind me were like a condensed, thick, eternal night, like one of those nights with a dense, persistent, sticky darkness which waits to pounce on unpopulated cities filled with lustful and vengeful dreams. The Blind Owl

Honesty's the best policy. Don Quixote