Lucifer contemplating the dawn by Gustave Dore.[/caption]Men of any worth or value soon come to see that they are in the hands of Fate, gratefully submit to be moulded by its teachings, and recognise that the fruit of life is experience.
In their search for gold, the alchemists discovered other things ( gunpowder, china, medicine, laws of nature). There is a sense in which we are all alchemists.
From beginning to end, under a law of necessity we just do what appears right and proper. It is only afterwards, when we come to look back at the whole course of our life and its general result, that we see the why and wherefore of it all.
Artur Schopenhauer
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