Act III, scene i.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”
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Leo Tolstoy
(1828–1910) Russian writer
Entry in Tolstoy's Diary http://www.linguadex.com/tolstoy/chapter1.htm (1 November 1910)
Context: God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him.
Or better yet:
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
God alone exists truly. Man manifests Him in time, space and matter. The more God's manifestation in man (life) unites with the manifestations (lives) of other beings, the more man exists. This union with the lives of other beings is accomplished through love.
God is not love, but the more there is of love, the more man manifests God, and the more he truly exists...
We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us. All conclusions and guidelines based on this consciousness should fully satisfy both our desire to know God as such as well as our desire to live a life based on this recognition.
“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”
Stephen King in introduction.
Source: Pet Sematary (1983)
“We only become beasts—we become worse than beasts—when we torment others.”
Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 11 (p. 197)
“There are moments in our lives when we all are kings of some place, some time. Some tomb.”
Lorin Morgan-Richards
(1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
Shared on social media on June 8, 2018.
Quotes as Marcil d'Hirson Garron
Source: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 11 : "King of the Apes"
Felix Adler
(1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life. Let us live truly while we live, live for what is true and good and lasting. And let the memory of our dead help us to do this. For they are not wholly separated from us, if we remain loyal to them. In spirit they are with us. And we may think of them as silent, invisible, but real presences in our households.
Cesar Chavez
(1927–1993) American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist
Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1990)