From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
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