We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.