“pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence”

“Virtue is achieved by its seekers not without a struggle; nor is abstinence from the paths of pleasure a painless process to human nature.”

Gregory of Nyssa (335–395) bishop of Nyssa

“Evolution is a design process; it’s just not an intelligent design process.”

Jonathan Haidt book The Righteous Mind

“Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.”

Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) Russian and Soviet writer

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. ”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“Learning's always a painful process.”

Luc Besson (1959) French film director, writer, and producer

“Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.”

Herman E. Daly (1938) American economist

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again.”

Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor

“Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.”

John Danforth (1936) American politician