William ShakespeareThere are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
About This Quote
In a play by William Shakespeare, Horatio is a soldier who has been badly wounded on a battlefield. He believes that the afterlife is a place where all of his hopes and dreams can come true. But he is soon to learn otherwise. In the midst of his injury, he learns that the life of the mind isn’t separate from the life of the flesh.
When something happens to us, we must still think about that thing until it’s resolved. This experience is hard for him to come to grips with. He had thought he knew everything there was to know about life, but there were more things in Heaven and Earth than even Horatio dreamed of.
Source: Hamlet
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