Quotes About Legacy

For my part, I shall take care, if I can, that my death discover nothing that my life has not first and openly declared.

Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.

But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can never be clothed again.

The good that we do sinks into history like rainfall into the earth. The earth, being earth, cannot feel gratitude or award us with medals, but it can grow flowers, and that is our reward.

Lose track of time for a moment –just long enough to be overtaken by a hundred and thirty years.

When you planted a dead person in the ground, there should be lots of people singing and dancing and eating nice food and telling stories while the sun beamed down.

Just think about this: If you were to die, how long would it take for people to go through your stuff? How many hours would they have to take off from their jobs to find and organize your personal property? Could they find your will? Where would they look for any instructions on your estate? Have you written down in a secure place the passwords to your computer or phone so friends and family can contact people if you pass away?

As Sir William Osler once said, "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

But Planck would always reassure Einstein. He would write, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because the opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Bertrand Russell once lamented "that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can preserve a life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system; and the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins…

Acaso los robots heredarán la Tierra? Sí, pero serán nuestros hijos. MARVIN MINSKY

Life may seem pointless if we are fated to spend it staring stupidly at our ultra-intelligent progeny as they try to describe their ever more spectacular discoveries in baby-talk that we can understand.

Every few days, Giordano Bruno has his revenge.

antecedents

see, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Las calles, la plaza y los edificios no hacían un pueblo, ni tan siquiera le daban fisionomía. A un pueblo lo hacían sus hombres y su historia. [...] Por las casas que flanqueaban pasaron hombres honorables, que hoy eran sombras, pero que dieron al pueblo y al valle un sentido, una armonía, unas costumbres, un ritmo, un modo propio y peculiar de vivir.

Pero todo el mundo sabe que la vida no vale la pena de ser vivida. En el fondo, no ignoraba que morir a los treinta años o a los setenta importa poco, pues, naturalmente, en ambos casos, otros hombres y otras mujeres vivían y así durante miles de años. En suma, nada podría ser más claro. Era siempre yo quien moriría, ahora o dentro de veinte años.

To the Circle of Fire; those who have gone before, those who are present, and those who have yet to come.

I owe everything to Hitler, since without him nothing would have been known, nothing would have been allowed to us.

Toate sunt trec?toare. Chinuri, suferinÈ›e, v?rs?ri de sânge, molim?, foamete. Totul va pieri, dar stelele de pe cer vor d?inui È™i atunci când jos, pe p?mânt, nu va mai r?mâne nici m?car umbra noastr? sau a înf?ptuirilor noastre. Nu se afl? nimeni pe faÈ›a p?mântului care s? n-o È™tie. ?i atunci de ce nu vrem s? ne îndrept?m privirea spre stele? De ce?

Cerita-cerita dipertahankan, seperti harta karun masih akan muncul di pasar dari waktu ke waktu, jika seorang tahu dimana mencarinya.

Everybody's born to do a certain thing and if you're dead jimmy you've found it. And if you're good at something, just keep doing it until you're fed up...then do something else. look.. You're here to make babies and look after the place. You know ? (Billy Connolly) Spoken Word on Spiritual city: -Off of Glastonbury Song