"Perhaps a man really dies when his..." - Quote by George Orwell
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
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More on Death
“You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.”
“How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?”
“We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.”
More on Mind
“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
“Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.”
“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”