The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
Source: Tread Softly For You Tread on My Jokes, I Like Dwight (1966).
-- Malcolm Muggeridge, (Mar 24 1903-1990), US writer, journalist, critic, educator; He is best known for writing Observer of Life.