“Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.” MaySeemsValuesDiesMankindInformationAcceptanceSurvivalAppreciateFundamentalsAppreciationPrerequisites Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?” ThinkingKnowsPersonsDiesAsksDestinyFourMoralityFundamentalsMeaning Of LifeLife MeansThinking Person Author:Ravi Zacharias
“The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.” GivingDiesOpportunityAbilityDutyFundamentals Author:Aubrey de Grey
“Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.” MeanDiesFallUnderstandingBreakGoneForeverSawsEmptyEssenceFundamentalsSoloCliffsParadigm Author:Dean Potter
“The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally stops increasing because the cosmos cannot get any more disordered. Nothing happens, and it keeps not happening, forever. It's what's known as the heat-death of the universe. An era when the cosmos will remain vast and cold and desolate for the rest of time the arrow of time has simply ceased to exist. It's an inescapable fact of the universe written into the fundamental laws of physics, the entire cosmos will die.” FirstsEndsFactsStoriesHappensLawDiesUniverseKnownForeverWrittenColdHappeningsFirst TimeFundamentalsPhysicsThings HappenErasPermanentHeatCosmosArrowsEntropyUnchangingDesolateLaws Of Physics Author:Brian Cox
“No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.” WantTwoDiesCulturePoorEconomicFundamentalsCyclesWanting To Die Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.” MenLittlesHappinessJoyDiesFundamentalsLittle Time Book:The Threepenny Opera Source: The Threepenny Opera
“All religions are nothing but a science - or an art - to teach you how to die. And the only way to teach you how to die is to teach you how to live. They are not separate. If you know what right living is, you will know what right dying is. So the first thing, or the most fundamental thing is: how to live.” IfsKnowsWayFirstsArtDiesTeachDyingFundamentals Author:Rajneesh
“The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.” PeopleDiesEnergyIndustryEssentialsSickCrisisFundamentalsFaultsEnvironmentalProductionsAriseAgricultureTransportationEnvironmental Crisis Author:Barry Commoner
“Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.” IfsStoriesInspirationMotivationDiesFundamentalsStatic Author:Andrew Stanton
“The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.” WritingMeanFormDiesBitsImpossiblePaperAmbitionFundamentalsStructureImmortalityExitUnchanging Author:Jacques Derrida
“When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.” ChildrenDiesGriefBreakFundamentalsPatterns Book:Trick of the Eye Source: Trick of the Eye
“The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.” SelfDiesBornFateEffectsSceneFundamentalsDramaticMatureLocation Author:Erving Goffman