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Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.”

Ifs Knows Soul Dies Eternal Flesh Immortality Immortal

Author:Andre Maurois

“The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.”

Dies One Thing Destroyed Immortality

Author:Richard Bach

“The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.”

Left Generations Seeking Mortals Immortality Immortal Everlasting

Book:Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic

Source: Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic

“Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.”

Wish Self Love Immortality Perpetuating

Author:Mortimer Adler

“To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.”

Age Lost Amount Titles Immortality Inches Now And Then Remembrance Shelves Casual Drowsy

Book:Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.”

People Thinking Dies Choices Immortality Smoking

Author:Tom Stoppard

“(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.”

Said Two Soul Would Be Born Possibility Immortality Immortal Blank After Death

Book:Humboldt's Gift

Source: Humboldt's Gift

“If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Sky Immortality Prophet Fasting Arabian Stallions

Author:Rumi

“Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.”

Men Life Is Immortality Honorable Life Is Short Honorable Death

Author:Publilius Syrus

“All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.”

Writing Whole Pay Poet Praise Immortality Tribes Objections

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Done Poor Figures Pity Immortality Companion Shelves Essayists

Book:Views and reviews

Source: Views and reviews

“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 can imagine.”

Long Art Running Effort Imagine Vain Immortality Long Runs Conquest Statesmanship

Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground

“Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.”

People Years Stuff Information Source Clubs Data Immortality Fascinating Really Great Institute Forums

Author:Tim Ferriss

“The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.”

Men May Belief Impression Immortality Sensible Impressed

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.”

Purpose Education Seeds Immortality Cherish Purpose Of Education True Purpose

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?”

Ifs Tomorrow Immortality

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.”

Break Failing Limits Down And Intellect Arise Immortality Breaking Down

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.”

Source: The province of the heart

“Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.”

Men Ideals Immortality Pursued

Author:George Wald

“Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.”

Ifs World Soul Next Individual Memories Make Sense Immortality Collectives Sainthood Merging

Book:You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.”

Thinking Immortality Immortal

Author:Douglas Coupland

“If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.”

Ifs Want Years Mind Heart Matter Eye Able Evil Clear Pure Succeed Mountain Ears Forests Immortality Afterlife

Author:Wang Yangming

“Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.”

Humans Heaven Results Effort Immortality Afterlife

Author:Wang Yangming

“A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.”

Men Looks Book Reading Waiting Answers Company Virtue Essence Tables Faults Forgotten Excellent Immortality Good Man Shelves Good Book Foibles Actual Life

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.”

Believe Attitude Effects Goodness Immortality Everlasting

Author:Robert Muller

“If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.”

Ifs Men Certain Immortality If There Is A God

Author:Edgar S. Brightman

“If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.”

Ifs World Persons Young Wish Boys This World Immortality Begin Again Candid

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.”

Government Earth Approach Immortality

Book:Spealing Frankly

Source: Spealing Frankly

“I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.”

Feels Art Generations Concern Significant Immortality Contribution Future Generation

Author:Judy Chicago

“There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.”

Ifs Feelings Danger Youth Excited Immortality

Author:Michelle Forbes

“In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.”

Reality Age Risk Middle Awareness Youth Immortality Middle Ages

Book:Devices and Desires

Source: Devices and Desires

“Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.”

Knows Firsts Mean Self All Things Prosperity Seeking Self Realization Realization Immortality Seeking God God First

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.”

“Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.”

“We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial infinity and temporal immortality it provides may well be just the remedy for these age-old problems. Access to the boundless resources of the universe may once and for all puncture the pressure of population and politics of scarcity which have generated war, oppression, and plagued our species from the start.”

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