In Isolation

 "The illusion of sin and guilt, the madness of our species, is that act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it.  To curse the fig tree, as in the funniest and most misunderstood parable of Jesus, is to curse the soil in which it grew, the seed, the rains, the sun;  the whole world, eventually-- because no part is truly separate from the whole.  The fallacy that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is 'the lie that all men believe.'"  ~Robert Anton Wilson