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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-05-04 · 16:27 UTC

Memento mori — remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour?

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 5.12 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]

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Lupposofi @[email protected] · 2025-10-08 · 18:29 UTC

SERRC-artikkelissaan Ljiljana Radenovic pohtii Knut Hamsunin Pan-kirjan onnettoman luutnantin pyhyys-kokemusta Charles Taylorin kosmisten kytkösten teorian kehyksessä, https://social-epistemology.com/2025/10/03/knut-hamsuns-pan-cosmic-connections-from-within-ljiljana-radenovic/

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