#immortal

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. ↗

— Tom Clancy

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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#associate #belief #conscious #continuance #existence

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

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Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. ↗

— Pindar

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