"... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority."
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"Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community."
"There's no question that ghosts exist. The big question for me is whether ghosts are simply electronic imprints left in the walls or the atmosphere of places, or whether they do actually represent something from the afterlife."
"Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses."
"I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock."
"There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world."
"From adult diapers to bedpans? Move over, Elvis, I’m the afterlife of the party!"
"So you’re saying the afterlife is hard on the libido? FYI, that’s probably not a good bullet point for your recruiting brochure."
"It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles."
"God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get."
"Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time.""
"Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife."
"I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world."
"It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases. "Everything went white," those whose blood pressure has dropped say of the instant before they faint."