The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

by Eric Weiner

friendship is one of our greatest sources of happiness.

Friends matter when you’re young. They matter more when you’re old.

Death makes philosophers of us all.

You don’t wake every morning worrying about the time before you were born, so why worry about death?

We are too close to ourselves to see ourselves.

We don’t die because we are sick. We die because we are alive.

“Death is the condition of your creation. It is a part of you. You are fleeing from your own selves.”

We may fear death, but the alternative, immortality, is far worse.

An awareness of death enables us to live more fully.