“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

— Albert Einstein

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German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativi… 1879–1955

Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian

Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.269

“A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.”

Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker

No. 40. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“I call the beginning of death the whole course of life, beginning with our birth, from which point we commence to die, and each moment of every day brings us nearer to our end.”

Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593) Italian writer

Chiamo principio della morte tutto il corso della vita cominciando al nostro nascimento, dal quale cominciamo a morire, e per momenti di tempo andiamo ogni giorno al nostro fine.
Della Morte, p. 529.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 275.

“For death is only a loss of radiance, and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is birth in the spiritual.”

Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic

Source: Reincarnation & Karma

“Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.”

Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic

Introduction
The Culture of Cities (1938)
Context: Nothing is permanent: certainly not the frozen images of barbarous power with which fascism now confronts us. Those images may easily be smashed by an external shock, cracked as ignominiously as the fallen Dagon, the massive idol of the heathen; or they may be melted, eventually, by the internal warmth of normal men and women. Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal. As life becomes insurgent once more in our civilization, conquering the reckless thrust of barbarism, the culture of cities will be both instrument and goal.