The concept of immortality raises many more issues than just whether eternity is poetic, atemporal or sempiternal. In fact, it even raises a question of perspective. Previous chapters discussed whether a continuity of consciousness is the mark of eternal life; the perspective in that case being ...
What is immortalityTo see the golden sun and the azure sky, the outstretched ocean, to walk upon the green earth , and to be a lord of a thousand creatures to look down giddy precipices or over distant flowery vales, to see the world spread o...
Immortality can be understood in many ways. The remembrance of somebody by the bereaved might be said to be one kind of eternal life. Fame might be another. Yet, none of these ways fulfills the original desire for continuation of personality and consciousness. On the consciousness level there...
What is immortality? Little Deaths “One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”— Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar and Philosopher – 1844-1900) Those fragmented parts of our personality that represent the false beliefs that influe...
to study the works of art and refine the sense of beauty to agony, to worship fame and to dream of immortality, to have read Shakespeare and Beloit to the same species as Sir Isaac Newton; to be and to do all this, and then in a moment to be nothing, to have it all snatched fro...
and to dream ofimmortality; to look upon the Vatican, and to read Shakespeare;to gather up the wisdom ofthe ancients, and to pry into the future;to listen to the trump ofwar, and the shout of victory;to question history as to the movementsof the human heart;to seek for truth;to plea...
to study the works of art and refine the sense of beauty to agony, to worship fame and to dream of immortality, to have read Shakespeare and Beloit to the same species as Sir Isaac Newton; to be and to do all this, and then in a moment to be nothing, to have it all snatched fro...
to study the works of art andrefinethe sense of beauty to agony, to worship fame and to dream of immortality, to have read Shakespeare and Beloit to the same species as Sir Isaac Newton to be and to do all this and then in a moment to be nothing to have it all snatched from one ...
What Is Immortality? 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 41 作者: P Hulsroj 摘要: Immortality can be understood in many ways. The remembrance of somebody by the bereaved might be said to be one kind of eternal life. Fame might be another. Yet, none of these ways fulfills the ...
to study the works of art andrefinethe sense of beauty to agony, to worship fame and to dream of immortality, to have read Shakespeare and Beloit to the same species as Sir Isaac Newton to be and to do all this and then in a moment to be nothing to have it all snatched from one ...