...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours away and here we are talking abo...ut the brain size of birds and bloodhounds and hunting in the woods. You can only attend to death for so long before the life force sucks you right in again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Besides, I see it is reasonable to punish a rash action, which could not be justly done by man to man, unless the same were volunt...ary. For no action of a man can be said to be without deliberation, though never so sudden, because it is supposed he had time to deliberate all the precedent time of his life, whether he should do that kind of action or not. And hence it is, that he that killeth in a sudden passion of anger, shall nevertheless be justly put to death, because all the time, wherein he was able to consider whether to kill were good or evil, shall be held for one continual deliberation, and consequently the killing shall be judged to proceed from election.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and cont...rary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time, force, and death Do to this body what extremes you can,... But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imagine that it is you yourself who are erecting the edifice of human destiny with the aim of making men happy in the end, of givi...ng them peace and contentment at last, but that to do that it is absolutely necessary, and indeed quite inevitable, to torture to death only one tiny creature, the little girl who beat her breast with her little fist, and to found the edifice on her unavenged tears--would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same ...horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is rea...lly the only chance we'll get to rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make o...ur children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, "Go to sleep by yourselves." And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but they ...are without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »