Accepting Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we…

— Blaise Pascal

“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us, and which touches us so profoundly, that we…

— Blaise Pascal

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take…

— Anthony Burgess

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is…

— Thomas A. Edison

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

— Orestes Brownson

The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care about knowing…

— J.P. Moreland

“The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the religious soul…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the…

— Cato the Younger

“The belief in the bodily resurrection has no religious foundation, and the doctrine of immortality refers to the after-existence of the soul only.”

— Norman Solomon

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

— Anonymous