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DNA – Snakes and Ladders
the good we do does live after us, and it is by far the most important thing that does.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Through memory we can prolong precious periods of happiness, “keeping the time alive”; through artistic creation and the rearing of children we can make our legacy live on beyond our own death; through community with others, political commitments, and the care for a sustainable society we can extend a sense of purpose far beyond the duration of our
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
There is no end to this march of human thought, as it transcends even death itself. The moment one node dies, many others will learn from the ideas of that node, and those thoughts form the foundation of further ideas to come. This is why the words of dead poets, politicians, and philosophers grow increasingly influential as time runs its course.
Lawrence Yeo • The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
The only way death is not meaningless is to see yourself as part of something greater: a family, a community, a society. If you don’t, mortality is only a horror. But if you do, it is not. Loyalty, said Royce, “solves the paradox of our ordinary existence by showing us outside of ourselves the cause which is to be served, and inside of ourselves th... See more
Atul Gawande • Being Mortal
sari added
There are two halves to “immortality” a selfish desire for an eternal reputation, but a selfless and non-desperate comfort in knowing the effect you have beyond your own time.
Michael Dean added
Perhaps death was not quite the annihilation she had thought. Perhaps it was not so essential that her person or even memories of her person survived. Perhaps the important thing was that her ripples persist, ripples of some act or idea that would help others attain joy and virtue in life, ripples that would fill her with pride and act to counter t
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Whenever I get caught in “make-a-dent-in-the-universe” thinking, I ask myself WIIWAF (what if I were a frog?)
A natural response to death is to aspire to rupture space-time: found a company, or a name-recognition indie band, or a book that sells beyond your life. But who really makes a dent in the universe? Steve Jobs? Jonas Salk? Genghis Kahn? Doe
... See moreMichael Dean added
I realized that passing on knowledge is like passing on DNA—it is more important than the individual, because it lives way beyond the individual’s life.