“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.” DoeRunningFormTroubleObjectsSuicideBraveIllNobleRunning AwayCowardiceSuicidalNobility Author:Aristotle
“To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.” MenDoeOrderDiesEvilPovertyTroubleSuicideBravePainfulCowardCowardiceHonorableBrave Man Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense of things about which it is very difficult to make any sense - illness, death, despair, suicides, cruelty, the various troubles love can provoke, our inability to really know one another when we our inner selves are walled off by our bodies.” KnowsSelfBodyTurnsDifficultTroubleDespairSuicideIllnessVariousCrueltyMake SenseProvokingFormalInabilityInner Self Author:Kyle Minor