Origo

Here's a great quote by Sydney J. Harris: "All our efforts to attain immortality — by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts — are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us imagine." (Quoted by Tom Morris in Philosophy For Dummies, p. 207) Then here's Morris' follow up: "Even if it were reasonable to expect a form of cultural immortality, most of us would agree with Woody Allen when he said, 'I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.'”