Claude Vorilhon quotes

“To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.”
-- Claude Vorilhon

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“There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.”
-- Claude Vorilhon

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“Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.”
-- Claude Vorilhon

Source : Charles Tandy, William Faloon, Robert A. Freitas, Jr., Robin Hanson, Michael Perry (2001). “Doctor Tandy's First Guide to Life Extension and Transhumanity”, p.155, Universal-Publishers

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“If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.”
-- Claude Vorilhon

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“Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.”
-- Claude Vorilhon

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“Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.”
-- Claude Vorilhon

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“Humility is always proof of intelligence”
-- Claude Vorilhon

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“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation

“I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson”

“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”

“In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range”

“In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.”

“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”

“I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.”

“When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?”