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The unimportance of identity

  Consider the fact that. in a few years, I shall be dead. This fact can seem depressing. But the reality is only this. After a certain time, none of the thoughts and experiences that occur will be directly causally related to this brain or be connected in certain ways to these present experiences. That is all this fact involves. And, in that description, my death seems to disappear. Derek Parfit  Derek Parfit was a British philosopher who specialized in personal identity, rationality and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th century and early 21st century .

A dancing star and purpose

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star  Friedrich Nietzche  Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose  Friedrich Nietzche 

Existential reflections and the philosophers

  Events happen as they do People behave as they are Embrace what you actually get Epictetus Difficulties strengthen the mind and labor does to the body Seneca If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave Cato the Elder You have power over your own mind -not outside events Realize this and you will find strength Marcus Aurelius No man is good by chance  Virtue is something which must be learned  Seneca They who fear suffering are already suffering from what they fear  Montaigne Another person can not hurt you without cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be Marcus Aurelius