December 20, 2008
It is strange that a world should be so dear which speculatively and seriously we acknowledge to be so unsatisfying and so dark. Not all its most glorious array when Nature is appareled in her best, and when Art toils to gratify, -not the bright sun itself, and the blazing firmament wherein he stands as chief – can prevent a man, at certain moments, from saying to his soul – “It is vanity.” No wild guesses, no elaborate reasoning can surmount this testimony to the familiar truth, that the human spirit has a higher origin than matter, a higher home than the earth; that it is too capacious to be always cheated with trifles, and too long-lived to amalgamate of mortality…
Emerson - Journals Volume I
Posted by amin at December 20, 2008 4:41 PM