During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
God made only water, but man made wine.
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?