“The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.” SoulBodyEarthMotherWealthAnimalShareCreaturesPhilosophicalSorryPrivilegeFleshWoundsHungryTeethBehaveWickedMidstFedsDestroyingGreedyAlasWickednessCravingLiving CreaturesAppeaseAnimal LifeAnimal CompassionCramming Author:Pythagoras
“And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!” WorldHeartChildrenEarthDarkChildhoodYouthCodeAlasImpart Author:Luc de Clapiers
“The earth with yellow pearsAnd overgrown with roses wildUpon the pond is bent,And swans divine,With kisses drunkYou drop your headsIn the sublimely sobering water.But where, with winter come, am ITo find, alas, the floweres, and whereThe sunshineAnd the shadow of the world?Cold the walls standAnd the wordless, in the windThe weathercocks are rattling.” WorldEarthWaterDivineWallColdKissingShadowRoseWinterYellowBentAlasPondsSwans Author:Friedrich Holderlin
“Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.” FirstsArtPhilosophyDreamEarthHeavenStepsAngelTheeDullReachingFirst StepsSublimeAlasLaddersBeckoningPatriarch Author:Alan Judd
“Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!” SoulBodyEarthLyingHeavenBreathsBroadsAlasBlinded Book:Sartor Resartus Source: Sartor Resartus