Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the paradox of human existence in relation to the vast ocean, highlighting our limitations and disconnect with nature.
Ambrose Bierce's quote encapsulates the irony of human life: we inhabit a world filled with natural wonders, like the ocean, yet we are fundamentally unadapted to many of its elements. While the ocean occupies a significant part of our planet, we, as land-dwelling beings without gills, can only engage with it on a limited basis. This statement invites contemplation about human adaptation and our relationship with the environment.
In practice
This quote can be used in a presentation on environmental awareness to highlight our tenuous connection to nature.
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.
I still do not understand how a corporation can have person-hood if it has no soul and never dies.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.
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