“I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.” KnowsWorldYearsMindHumansHas BeensMomentsLastsLife IsSpiritCertainEnergyGivenCausesMy OwnVirtueIgnoranceRegretConsciousNobleLiberationUselessHuman MindDedicatedInertiaTimidityPrecious GiftsNoble Causes Author:Maya Angelou
“I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.” MenHumansHas BeensSeemsWould BeWantedEnergyChristForeverTroubleIgnoranceMessagesCrossesFaultsHealSatisfiedAppealsNot SureSparesRedeemer Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.” MenFoundEnergyCenturyIgnoranceHeroTerribleIntellectualDiscoveryAll ThingsFundamentalsTragicDaringCatastropheFifthFuriousTragic Hero Author:Robert Fagles