Tag: mortality
16 quotes
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We’re all going to die. Life is too short to have a stick up your ass.
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We are born without choosing to, to parents we haven’t chosen, into bodies and borders we haven’t chosen, to exist in a region of spacetime we haven’t chosen for a duration we don’t choose.
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Solitude… is what sustains me and protects me from my mind. It renders me fully present. I am desert. I am mountains. I am Great Salt Lake. There are other languages being spoken by wind, water, and wings. There are other lives to consider:...
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So in the end, AI may need to experience mortality and the pain that goes with it, to have anything to share that we're interested in.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river small at first, narrowly...
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone...
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All things are in transitory existence.
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We are born into the certitude of our eventual death. Every once in a while, something perhaps an encounter with a robin’s egg, perhaps a poem staggers us with the awful, awe-filled wonder of aliveness, the sheer luck of it against the...
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Remember that none of us will be here for the end of the story, but it's on all of us to make sure it's one worth telling.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
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That you can lose yourself. Everything. All boundaries. All time. That two bodies can become so mixed up, that you don't know who's who or what's what. And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you're gonna die... you kind of do....
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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
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When in due course Charon ferries me across the Styx and everyone is telling everyone else what a rotten writer I was, I hope at least one voice will be heard piping up, 'But he did take trouble.’
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The man will be, by then, at the end of his journey of learning, and almost without warning he will come upon the last of his enemies: Old age! This enemy is the cruellest of all, the one he won’t be able to defeat completely, but only fight...