“In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us … Hence too the necessity of preparing for it.”
Markings (1964)
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Swedish diplomat, economist, and author 1905–1961Related quotes
“My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.”
Source: Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. 2: A Couple of Deaths and Exits.
The Use of Life (1894), ch. VI: National Education
Source: The Use of Life http://archive.org/details/uselife02lubbgoog/page/n114/mode/2up on Archive.Org, pages 102—103
“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”
Source: Death Masks
Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics
Proclamation to his People (7 August 1914), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 7
1910s
As quoted in Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989) by Walter Moore
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 85e
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 20
Context: In our highly complex organic state we advanced organisms respond to our environment with an invention of many marvelous analogues. We invent earth and heavens, trees, stones and oceans, gods, music, arts, language, philosophy, engineering, civilization and science. We call these analogues reality. And they are reality. We mesmerize our children in the name of truth into knowing that they are reality. We throw anyone who does not accept these analogues into an insane asylum. But that which causes us to invent the analogues is Quality. Quality is the continuing stimulus which our environment puts upon us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it.