And yet, we need but to have been twice or thrice in the company of those who stand for what is best in mankind, most intellectually, Sentiently human, to realise how uncertain and groping their search is still for the happier hours of life; to marvel at the resemblance the unconscious happiness they look for bears to the happiness craved by the man who has no spiritual existence; to note how opaque, to their eyes, is the cloud which separates all that pertains to the being who rises from all that is his who descends.
"The Buried Temple"
Maurice Maeterlinck