gwern comments on Rationality Quotes October 2011

gwern 10 Oct 2011 17:00 UTC
30 points
```
"We know this much
Death is an evil;
we have the gods'
word for it; they too
would die if death
were a good thing"
```
--Sappho #7; trans. Barnard (seen on http://www.nada.kth.se/%7Easa/Quotes/immortality )
- Vaniver 10 Oct 2011 17:20 UTC
  4 points
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  Combine this with Nietzsche’s “God is dead.”