We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
Our life is made by the death of others.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.