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miete ("thought") + lause ("phrase")
count: 8
filter: title = When Breath Becomes Air clear
Literature provides the best account of the life of the mind.
page: 30
tags:
mind
There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living.
page: 35
tags:
experience
Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job, not a calling.
page: 69
tags:
calling
purpose
lifestyle
What's better: an easy death or persist despite being unable to struggle?
page: 87
tags:
death
The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.
page: 132
tags:
death
living
The defining characteristic of the organism is striving.
page: 143
tags:
striving
Maybe, in the absence of any certainty, we should just assume that we're going to live a long time. Maybe that's the only way forward.
page: 162
tags:
uncertainty
death
Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.
page: 172
tags:
knowledge
relationships