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  • Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside.

    "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 198, 1970.