Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. — Aldous Huxley. English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.