Thoughts About Death
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Publicado: 14 de mayo de 2012
MEANING OF LIFE AND DEATH
The awareness of death has its roots in our conscience and is in the heart of our lives. Death is a human evil, not shared by other species. The fear of death is a specific human grief.
«If we did not die, if our existence did not unravel in the endless darkness of death, would life be quite so precious, so extraordinary, so moving?»
Andre Comte-SponvilleConscience of Death
The conscience of death accompanies us since childhood, as conscience of the absolute destruction of the only precious treasure of ours: our I.
E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality... The most ideal human passion islove, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana, 1863-1952, American philosopher, Reason in Religion
Unlike man, animals, so to speak, live without knowing death. The individual animal enjoys fully the immutability of its gender, being conscious of itself only as an immortal being.
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher, Le mondecomme volonté et comme représentation
"Who am I?" Maybe you've never even asked yourself this question. You might think you already know who you are. Unfortunately, however, it's likely that you don't know who you are at all. And if you don't know your real identity, you're in trouble. You'll spend your life in a kind of dream state—you'll falsely identify yourself as something or someone youaren't. Then, on the basis of this false identification, you'll determine the goals of your life and the purpose of your existence. You use these goals to gauge whether you are making "progress" in life, whether you are a "success." And you are aided and abetted in this delusion by a complex network of relationships with other dreamers. Of course, at death (and sometimes before), the whole thingturns into a nightmare
Jagad Guru Chris Butler
Death Torments Man
Death is a source of drama, interrogations, grief and revolt. The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man’s destiny, life, the world.
E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as faras death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus, 341-270 BC Greek philosopher, Vatican Sayings
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V
Death is never a trick; nature doesn’t play a comedy; instead, it’s a tragic, colossal and unstoppable drama.
L.Fuerbach, 1804-1872, German philosopher, cited in Edgar Morin O homem e a morte
The irresistible and incessant stream of time carries all creations in its wave, throwing them into the depths of obscurity, regardless of whether they are trivial or, on the contrary, notable and important.
Ann Comnena, 1083-1150, Byzantine historian, The Alexiad of the princess Ann Comnena
The earth that'snature's mother is her tomb.
Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English writer, Romeo and Juliet
She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was subsequently mislaid.
Boris Pasternak, 1890-1960, Russian writer, Doctor Jivago
Death frights us. Death is a perpetual torment, for which there is no sort of consolation. There is no way by which it may not reach us. We maycontinually turn our heads this way and that, as if in a suspected country, but we can’t forget death.
Montaigne, 1533-1592, French writer, Montaigne: Essays
Men come, go, sing and dance, without uttering a word about death. All this is very fine: but, when it comes either to themselves, their wives, their children, or their friends, taking them unawares and unprepared, then what torment, what...
The awareness of death has its roots in our conscience and is in the heart of our lives. Death is a human evil, not shared by other species. The fear of death is a specific human grief.
«If we did not die, if our existence did not unravel in the endless darkness of death, would life be quite so precious, so extraordinary, so moving?»
Andre Comte-SponvilleConscience of Death
The conscience of death accompanies us since childhood, as conscience of the absolute destruction of the only precious treasure of ours: our I.
E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality... The most ideal human passion islove, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana, 1863-1952, American philosopher, Reason in Religion
Unlike man, animals, so to speak, live without knowing death. The individual animal enjoys fully the immutability of its gender, being conscious of itself only as an immortal being.
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher, Le mondecomme volonté et comme représentation
"Who am I?" Maybe you've never even asked yourself this question. You might think you already know who you are. Unfortunately, however, it's likely that you don't know who you are at all. And if you don't know your real identity, you're in trouble. You'll spend your life in a kind of dream state—you'll falsely identify yourself as something or someone youaren't. Then, on the basis of this false identification, you'll determine the goals of your life and the purpose of your existence. You use these goals to gauge whether you are making "progress" in life, whether you are a "success." And you are aided and abetted in this delusion by a complex network of relationships with other dreamers. Of course, at death (and sometimes before), the whole thingturns into a nightmare
Jagad Guru Chris Butler
Death Torments Man
Death is a source of drama, interrogations, grief and revolt. The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man’s destiny, life, the world.
E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as faras death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus, 341-270 BC Greek philosopher, Vatican Sayings
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V
Death is never a trick; nature doesn’t play a comedy; instead, it’s a tragic, colossal and unstoppable drama.
L.Fuerbach, 1804-1872, German philosopher, cited in Edgar Morin O homem e a morte
The irresistible and incessant stream of time carries all creations in its wave, throwing them into the depths of obscurity, regardless of whether they are trivial or, on the contrary, notable and important.
Ann Comnena, 1083-1150, Byzantine historian, The Alexiad of the princess Ann Comnena
The earth that'snature's mother is her tomb.
Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English writer, Romeo and Juliet
She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was subsequently mislaid.
Boris Pasternak, 1890-1960, Russian writer, Doctor Jivago
Death frights us. Death is a perpetual torment, for which there is no sort of consolation. There is no way by which it may not reach us. We maycontinually turn our heads this way and that, as if in a suspected country, but we can’t forget death.
Montaigne, 1533-1592, French writer, Montaigne: Essays
Men come, go, sing and dance, without uttering a word about death. All this is very fine: but, when it comes either to themselves, their wives, their children, or their friends, taking them unawares and unprepared, then what torment, what...
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