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"Human misery, according to Mephisto, comes from one's "Reason" (i.e. intelligence), which serves only to make people see that they are little more than animals."

-W. John Campbell, The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics, p. 251

That was small tid bit from the plot summary of the greatest book in the world, "Faust" written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Read it, if you don't you've wasted your life.

P.S. Mephisto is also known as Mephistopheles or the Devil (a.k.a Satan, Lucifer, Beezelbub)