The problem of immortality:
studies in personality and value Tsanoff, Radoslav Andrea,
(1887-1976)
The Macmillan Co.,
New York, 1924
"Our religion... is unquestionably divine, since seventeen centuries
of imposture and imbecility have not destroyed it." Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
"Alas, I am like a doctor; I know nothing."
Voltaire
"If this is the best of all possible worlds, what must the others be like?" Voltaire
"The best world for a moral agent is one that needs him to make it better." R Tsanoff
"...ardent devotion does not by itself prevail if its object is unworthy." R. Tsanoff
"The end does not always justify the means, but often damns them." R. Tsanoff
"I judge but by the fruits--and they are bitter... Lord Byron
"What care I for this life at such a frightful cost?" Leconte de Lisle
"He only earns his freedom and existence
Who daily conquers them again." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"...the essence of evil: rebellious alienation of the part from the Whole." Tsanoff, summarizing Nikolaus Lenau
"The one that in your arms you hold,
Is never he that charms your heart." Tsanoff, quoting Lord Byron, Don Juan
"A destroyer of phantoms, philosophy leaves man with nothing to sustain him, and thus is a bane and not a blessing." Tsanoff, on Giacomo Leopardi.
"Miserable by necessity, we insist on believing ourselves miserable by accident." Tsanoff, on Leopardi.
"Fate to our kind hath given no boon but death." G. Leopardi
"Man is always as his needs require." G. Leopardi
"...indifference to happiness is more likely to lead to happiness
than the pursuit of it." Tsanoff, on Leopardi
"In the very expression of his conviction that life is of no worth,
worth most precious is experienced." Tsanoff, on Leopardi
"Imagination saves us in a worthless world:
we take refuge in our cherished illusions." Tsanoff, on Leopardi
"The swiftest animal that bears thee to perfection is suffering." Meister Eckhart
"A thousand joys don't make up for one torment." Francesco Petrarch
"...each ravenous beast the living grave of others." Tsanoff, on Arthur Schopenhauer
"The greatest of man's sins
Is that he was ever born." Pedro Calderón de la Barca
"He does not write at all whose poems no one reads." Martial
