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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:57:43 EST
Subject: Unamuno

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Unamuno 

Looking for ways to promote cryonics beyond    cold    logic?  We (including the
Venturists) could do worse than to direct attention to Miguel  de Unamuno, a 
writer of poetry and lyrical prose, who in his time (roughly a  century ago) 
was called the greatest living Spanish writer. His magnum opus was  THE TRAGIC 
SENSE OF LIFE, and following are a few snippets, some in  paraphrase: 

*Knowledge is not for the sake of knowledge, nor truth  for the sake of truth
but for the sake of real people. 
*The  real starting point of all philosophy is self-love, the effort to 
persist in  one   s own being. The longing not to die, as Spinoza said, is our 
essence and the  affective basis of all knowledge. 
*If  we all believed we could avoid death, we should all be better. 
*   Love thy neighbor as thyself    presupposes that you love  yourself. 
*I  am given reasons against immortality, but it is not with reasons that the 
heart  is appeased. 
*To  live is not my right, but it is my necessity. 
*The  age of greatest intellectual grandeur was that of Lucretius   man alone 
without  gods. 

*In  time, all human consciousness will cease to exist   wherefore, then, your
consolations? 
*I  will not abdicate my life   my life must be wrested from me. 
*Walpole said life is comedy for those who think, and  tragedy for those who 
feel. Even so, better to feel. 
*The  supreme human need is the need of not dying. 
*Serenity is not my end, but disquiet and passionate  striving. 
*Despair is the master of impossibilities. 
*May  God deny you peace, but give you glory! 
Robert Ettinger



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