DeathMethuen, 1912 - 105 頁 |
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able abyss amounts to annihilation ask one's become behold BELONG TO DEATH binations birth body boundless ceive certainty chances changeless conceive consciousness different CONSCIOUSNESS HERE remains consciousness of to-day dared darkness destiny disappear doctors dread dreams earth end by mingling ephemeral eternity everything exist experiments extinguished eyes face fate finity grave happens hope horror of death hour human thought hurls IDEA OF DEATH ill awaiting illusion imagination immense immovable impossible incomprehensible infinite infinity intellect intelligence lastly less limits longer matter MAURICE MAETERLINCK memo memory mind mystery naught nebula ness seems never nothingness pain peace perceive perhaps persuaded pitiful possible prayer prefer the easiest prolongation question reason sciousness seek senses sorrow of powerlessness soul space stand struggle substance sufferings survival without consciousness tain terrors thing torments torture the worlds Total annihilation truth understand unimaginable universe unknown wherein wisdom
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第 16 頁 - All doctors consider it their first duty to prolong to the uttermost even the cruellest pangs of the most hopeless agony. Who has not, at the bedside of a dying man, twenty times wished and not once dared to throw himself at their feet and implore them to show mercy ? They are filled with so great a certainty and the duty which they obey leaves so little room for the least doubt that pity and reason, blinded by tears, curb their revolt and recoil before a law which all recognize and revere as the...
第 23 頁 - All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term, even as it withdraws silently every evening, knowing that its task is done.
第 61 頁 - Since we have been able to acquire our present consciousness, why should it be impossible for us to acquire another ? For that ego which is so dear to us and which we believe ourselves to possess was not made in a day; it is not at present what it was at birth.
第 34 頁 - Total annihilation is impossible. We are the prisoners of an infinity without outlet, wherein nothing perishes, wherein everything is dispersed, but nothing lost. Neither a body nor a thought can drop out of the universe, out of time and space. Not an atom of...
第 54 頁 - Let us accustom ourselves to regard death as a form of life which we do not as yet understand ; let us learn to look upon it with the same eye that looks upon birth ; and soon our minds will be accompanied to the steps of the tomb with the same glad expectation that greets a birth.
第 17 頁 - ... the intelligence of men. That is why the doctors act as though they were convinced that there is no known torture but is preferable to those awaiting us in the unknown. They seem persuaded that every minute gained...
第 15 頁 - All the doctors consider it their first duty to protract as long as possible even the most excruciating convulsions. Who has not, at a bedside, twenty times wished to throw himself at their feet and implore them to show mercy.
第 64 頁 - It is very possible that our loftiest wishes of to-day will become the law of our future development. It is very possible that our best thoughts will welcome us on the farther shore, and that the quality of our intellect will determine that of the infinite which crystallizes around it. ... Whatever be the force that survives us and presides over our existence in the other world, this existence, to presume the worst, could be no less great, no less happy than that of to-day. It will have no other...
第 6 頁 - How should we know the one power which we never looked in the face? How could it profit by flashes kindled only to help us escape it? To fathom its abysses, we wait until the most enfeebled, the most disordered moments of our life arrive. We do not think of death until we have no longer the strength, I will not say, to think, but even to breathe. A man returning among us from another century would...
第 24 頁 - ... have been in vain. A single hour snatched from death outweighs a whole existence of tortures. . . . A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty. Once the doctor and the sick man have learned what they have to learn, there will be no physical nor metaphysical reason why the advent of death should not be as salutary as that of sleep.1 Against this eloquent and at first sight impressive...