Remains - Quotes
Education is that which remains if one has forgotten everything else he learned in school.
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution. Many animals react instinctively with terror and flight at the approach of a predator. It is a healthy reaction, one that allows them to escape from danger. But it`s a terror that lasts an instant, not something that remains with them constantly. Natural selection has produced these big apes with hypertrophic frontal lobes, with an exaggerated ability to predict the future. It`s a prerogative that`s certainly useful but one that has placed before us a vision of our inevitable death, and this triggers the instinct of terror and flight. Basically, I believe that the fear of death is the result of an accidental and clumsy interference between two distinct evolutionary pressures - the product of bad automatic connections in our brain rather than something that has any use or meaning.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
I`ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.