Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.”
Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.
“Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life”
Variant: dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
Source: Tuck Everlasting
Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1962)
Context: We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things.
The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand.
Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.
Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope.
So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man — and the Word is with Men.
“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.”
Q&A session at quarterly meeting of the Philadelphia Bar Association (11 March 2011), as reported in "Sotomayor receives Philadelphia Bar's Diversity Award" by Jeff Blumenthal http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/jeff-blumenthal/2011/03/sotomayor-receives-philadelphia-bars.html?ed=2011-03-11&s=article_du&ana=e_du_pub, in Philadelphia Business Journal (11 March 2011).
“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.”
Variant: Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Source: Norwegian Wood
