Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.