“I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.” ThinkingHumansSeemsEyeAgeAsksLostLeftHuman BeingsAnimalEternalSlaveryTragicReminders Author:Edith Wharton
“His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.” WellsMadeFoundLeftVirtueTalentMastersEternalRoundsVoidPausesEmployed Book:The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life
“Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.” KnowsMenSoulDiesLeftVisionTruth IsEternalEarsTragedyRaisesStormMortalitySpectatorsFurySailor Author:George Santayana