“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”

Pt. II, ch. 1, sec. 1.
Source: 1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

Source: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 12 (p. 152)

Source: Nobility of Spirit : A Forgotten Ideal (2008), p. xxvii

Art Psalms (2008), The Plan

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 3, on dialogue.

Talks with Mussolini (1932), quoting earlier remarks <br class="br">As quoted in &quot; Duce (1922-42)&quot; in TIME magazine (2 August 1943) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777927-4,00.html <br class="br">1930s <br class="br">Variant: I shall make my own life a masterpiece.

What is Art? (1897)
Context: Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. And in this, as in every movement, there are leaders — those who have understood the meaning of life more clearly than others — and of those advanced men there is always one who has in his words and life, manifested this meaning more clearly, accessibly, and strongly than others. This man's expression … with those superstitions, traditions, and ceremonies which usually form around the memory of such a man, is what is called a religion. Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life … within a given age in a given society … a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal … they are good, if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.