נעים מאוד
לי אין מושג בפילוסופיה מודרנית , מודה על האמת.
 
בכל אופן -
לגופם של דברים - אני גם חושב שהמשפט למעלה בא להביע את הרעיון , שפילוסוף אמיתי (אליבא דקיקרו), גם אם הוא לא תמיד מדבר על המוות , צילו של המוות נמצא בכל דבריו.
הוא פשוט בוחן את ידיעותיו והתנהגותו לנוכח זמניותו.
 
אביא בעניין הזה כמה משפטים יפים מקסטנדה , כי הם מבהירים את הרעיון :
 
"Tell me, don Juan," I said to end the conversation on a different note, "what is a being that is going to die, really? I have heard you talk about it so many times, but you haven't actually defined it for me.
" "Human beings are beings that are going to die," he said. "Sorcerers firmly maintain that the only way to have a grip on our world, and on what we do in it, is by fully accepting that we are beings on the way to dying.
Without this basic acceptance, our lives, our doings, and the world in which we live are unmanageable affairs."
 
"But is the mere acceptance of this so far-reaching?"
I asked in a tone of quasi-protest.
 
"You bet your life!" don Juan said, smiling. "However, it's not the mere acceptance that does the trick. We have to embody that acceptance and live it all the way through. Sorcerers throughout the ages have said that the view of our death is the most sobering view that exists. What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality.
We behave as if we were never going to die-an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it: the sense that we can engulf this inconceivable universe with our minds.