Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

Don't try to remake the world in your image. That was God's mistake.

Speed-the illusion that one is getting somewhere.

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.

The Duke has decreed that the Castle is not cold." The gentleman's lips are almost blue from this lack of cold. "And the Duke is right and correct in this as in all things."

...some very beautiful tapestries line the walls, but many of them are also full of holes. Perhaps the Duke has decreed that there are no moths, either.