I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
Woody AllenRead
I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.
Interpretation
The speaker desires genuine immortality through living rather than through lasting achievements.
Woody Allen's quote reflects a deep philosophical stance on life and legacy. Instead of seeking immortality through the impact of his works, he expresses a more fundamental desire to exist perpetually, suggesting that true fulfillment lies in the simple act of living rather than the pursuit of posthumous recognition. This highlights a preference for the essence of life over the accolades associated with mortality and creative output.
In practice
During a discussion on the meaning of life at a philosophy club.
I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it - it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences, your education, your religion, your parents - which may be dead, but their judgments are being carried by your mind and they will be given as a heritage to your children. Generation after generation, every disease is being transferred as a heritage. Only a non-judgmental mind has intelligence, because it is spontaneously responding to reality.
But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.
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