“There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”

— Thornton Wilder, book The Eighth Day

The Eighth Day (1967)
Context: When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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