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“There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.”

May Ends Immortality Immortal Be Confident Immortal Soul

Book:Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths

Source: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths

“SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

Years May Two Age Memories Alive Politician Thousand Forgotten Immortality Thousand Years Bernard Shaw Stravinsky Madame Curie

Author:Anthony Burgess

“No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.”

Wells May Soul Energy Battle Eternal Graves Immortality Strife Eternal Life Advancing Energy Of Life

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.”

Humans May Country Play Artist Human Beings Suicide Committed Lawyer Immortality Bombs Immortal Atomic Bomb Good Lawyer Spacetime

Author:e. e. cummings

“Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.”

Should May Purpose Genius Tendencies Immortality Admiration Rome Employed Monument Degrade Detest Magnificence Abhorrence Coliseum

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?”

Men Should Humans May Mean Understanding Opinion Modern Prove Evidence Invisible Bother Immortality Memories Dreams Reflections Modern Man Insisting Scientific Evidence

Book:Man and His Symbols

Source: Man and His Symbols

“We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.”

Should Humans May Desire Human Beings Immortality

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace