Flying Towards Fate “It is never a sweet thing to draw out a long, long life in cheerful hopes, and feed the spirit in the bright benignity of happiness: but I shiver when I see you wasted with the ten thousand pains, all because you did not tremble at the name of Zeus: your mind was yours, not his, and at its bidding you regarded mortal men too high, Prometheus.” -Aeschylus, “Prometheus Bound” Man’s imaginative reach of his own destiny transcends his actual capabilities of himself. The goal he attains is never quite the same as the one he projects. By his acts he inscribes himself in a world which he cannot comprehend anymore than he can understand himself. Each person is a self-creation, but chance furnishes most of the material out of which he must make himself. The nature of man’s hope in himself forces him to strive for an understanding of....

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