From 'A Tract More or Less According to a Synopsis of Emerson'



On an Approach to Immortality

It is peculiar to each person to strive for enjoyment, which is always
either sexual satisfaction, or satiation, or acquisition.
But only that which lies not on the path to enjoyment leads towards
immortality. All systems leading to immortality in the end come down to a
single rule: continually do that which you don't feel like doing, because
every person feels like either eating, or satisfying their sexual feelings,
or acquiring something, or all of these more or less at a stroke. It is
interesting that immortality is always connected with death and is treated
by various religious systems as eternal enjoyment, or as eternal torment, or
as an eternal absence of enjoyment and torment.

1939

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Jos te tulitte tänne jonku haku sivun kautta niin minkä laitit hakusanaksi?
Meinaan vaan et mää tulin ja hakusana oli HEVOSET!