| "Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of." »Peter Ustinov |
| "Life is the childhood of our immortality." »Johann von Goethe |
| "The first condition of immortality is death." »Stanislaw Lec |
| "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul." »Honore' de Balzac |
| "What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality." »Clifton Fadiman |
| "The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever." »Herb Caen |
| "Each life makes its own immitation of immortality." »Stephen King |
| "If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." »James Grover Thurber |
| "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Unable are the Loved to die For Love is immortality." »Jean Pierre Claris De Florian |
| "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." »Susan Ertz |
| "Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality." »Emily Dickinson |
| "I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it." »Albert Einstein |
| "immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all." »Heinrich Heine |
| "I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever" »George Gordon Byron |
| "The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us." »Anna James |
| "How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness And all these things are within our comprehension." »Clement of Rome |
| "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." »Woody Allen |
| "In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral." »George Santayana |
| "If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement." »Antonio Gramsci |
| "The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality." »The Divine Pymander |
| "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 |
| "It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time." »Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. |
| "The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity." »G Gaia |
| "Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley |
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