“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”
“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
“morigu the desacration and morigu the dead great books but series is unfinished”
“The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.”