Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.
―Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Tag: Life
Science may provide the most useful way to…
Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.
―Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Many men go fishing all of their lives…
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
-Henry David Thoreau
The best life is spent preparing for death…
The best life is spent preparing for death.
Plato
A life is not important except in the…
A life is not important except in the impact that it has on other lives.
-Jackie Robinson