Some researchers think the drive to explain the world is a basic human impulse, similar to thirst or hunger.
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The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. Prices are set at the margin by the most motivated seller and the most motivated buyer — and neither is representative of rational long-term value.
Philip Fisher — Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
She never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their newborn child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
The thing about man is that he knows what other animals do not: that he must die. And though he tries to forget it, this knowledge pursues him through his days like a creditor he cannot pay.
William Hazlitt — On the Fear of Death