Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality."
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Immortality
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Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"We feel and know that we are eternal."
Brandon Lee
Actor, Martial Artist
"Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind."
James Dean
Actor
"The only greatness for man is immortality."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal."
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"Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?"
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"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."
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"This life is but the childhood of our immortality."
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"If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?"
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"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead."
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"There is no virtue if there is no immortality."
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"Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you."
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"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."
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"Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality."
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"I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind."
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"Each life makes its own immitation of immortality."
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"A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well."
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"Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace."
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"Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed."
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"One who contends with immortals lives a very short life."
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"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."
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"We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything."
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"To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake"
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"I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead."
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"If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal."
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