Religion is a man using a divining rod.
Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. I simply do what many dream of. I simply do what others talk about. I simply become what others dare not even to imagine. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again.