“The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult.” WorldStarsSunFateBirthRiversStonesSticksBusyTerrorObsessedRitualSavagesSimplestAnimatedOccultCapricious Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!” MenHeartMayEarthFacesFightingNamesStrongCausesChallengesSilenceFateInspireBirthBattleDrawsDevilRainStonesCastsBlowMysteriousTheeShakesDaringBowsDreadWoeCalamityUnbrokenAvalanchesGauntlet Author:Leonid Andreyev
“I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.” WaySometimesHappensLife IsPurposePathOur LivesWrittenBirthStonesVariationCan't ChangeWritten In Stone Author:Maya Tiwari
“Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.” GivingSaidStillsBirthStonesMonstersFatsDrsAmazedGiving Birth Book:Valis Source: Valis