Quote by H. P. Lovecraft on Human Forms in Other Worlds

„To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.“

H. P. LovecraftH. P. Lovecraft criticizes the depiction of human forms and passions as native to other worlds and universes.
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H. P. Lovecraft was an American writer known for his significant contributions to speculative fiction, particularly in the genre of cosmic horror.

Quote by H. P. Lovecraft on the depiction of human forms and passions in fantastical worlds.


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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an influential American author best known for his horror and weird fiction stories. His works helped establish the subgenre of cosmic horror, featuring incomprehensible extraterrestrial entities.

Quote by H. P. Lovecraft about false civilizations and their impact on human mind and cultureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is not a true civilization, and has nothing in it to satisfy a mature and fully developed human mind. It is attuned to the mentality of the galley-slave and the moron, and crushes relentlessly with disapproval, ridicule, and economic annihilation any sign of actually independent thought and civilised feeling whith chances to rise above its sodden level. It is a treadmill, squirrel-trap culture – drugged and frenzied with the hashish of industrial servitude and material luxury. It is wholly a material body-culture, and its symbol is the tiled bathroom and steam radiator rather than the Doric portico and the temple of philosophy. Its denizens do not live or know how to live." H. P. Lovecraft
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