Essay Archive - Flying Towards Fate
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 wo....
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