Do they think that they have ...

Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

Quotes from the same author

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.