The gods exist, but then cannot be harnessed to the ends of man; they seem familiar in their humanity, they can even be laughed at, but still they remain distant. In a certain sense they are the polar contrast to man. The line which separates gods and men: mortals moving towards their end on one side, deathless gods on the other. However much the gods may rage or even suffer, all their stir lacks the true seriousness which comes in mankind from the possibility of destruction.