A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Interpretation
Every person is inherently complex and unknowable to others, highlighting the uniqueness of human experience.
This quote by Charles Dickens suggests that each individual possesses a depth of personality and complexity that remains a mystery to others. It implies that understanding one another is a lifelong endeavor, as each person's thoughts and experiences are unique and cannot be fully comprehended by someone else, emphasizing both individuality and the human connection.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of relationships, this quote might illustrate the idea of emotional depth.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.
Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
Lincoln's appeal to "the better angels of our nature" failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable.
One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.
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