“As down the centuries, a few men stand in lonely rectitude that we may look and say, there is a human race behind us.”
“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.”
“We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may even hope for a day, many centuries hence, when our posterity will look down upon us in the same way.”
“Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.”
“The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.”
“This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .”